AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Legislature will adjourn its special session on Friday and Gov. Greg Abbott will immediately call a new one if the House cannot gather enough lawmakers to vote on a congressional redistricting session before then, Republican leaders said Tuesday.

"Let this be a warning. The second session is coming," Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said, addressing at least 50 absent House Democrats who have held the House at a standstill since Aug. 4. "It is time to get home and take your seats."

Abbott said in a statement the second session would again have redistricting among its priorities, "with the potential to add more items critical to Texans."

"There will be no reprieve for the derelict Democrats who fled the state and abandoned their duty to the people who elected

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