"The Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 would end gerrymandering and put a stop to the current redistricting war taking place across the country, said the bill's authors, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Zoe Lofgren of San Jose. It would prohibit mid-cycle redistricting, like what is happening in a few states around the country this year, unless ordered by a court."
"We believe in a better way forward and so today we're offering Republicans this off-ramp, Padilla, a former California secretary of state, said during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Sept. 18. Let's come together behind the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025, a commonsense solution to the partisan power grabs that we're witnessing. Both the Texas and Missouri legislatures recently passed mid-cycle redistricting plans, but their actions are being challenged in court."
"Lofgren said she had been introducing similar legislation related to redistricting since 2005. In 2021, she said, a bill calling for independent redistricting passed the House when Democrats had control of the lower chamber, but it did not pass out of the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate. It can't just be one side that agrees to stop gerrymandering. It needs to be both."
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 to ban mid-decade redistricting and require nonpartisan, independent commissions to draw congressional maps nationwide. The bill would prohibit mid-cycle redistricting except when ordered by a court. The proposal responds to recent mid-cycle plans passed by Texas and Missouri and to similar efforts under consideration in Indiana and Florida, with those state actions facing legal challenges. California plans a special election in November to redraw its congressional lines in a move to benefit Democrats. Lofgren has introduced related redistricting legislation since 2005, and a 2021 version passed the House but stalled in the Senate.
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