AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- Sunday afternoon, State Senators launched a public hearing on a bill to redraw congressional voting districts in Texas. The hearing comes two days after Governor Greg Abbott called a second special session of the Texas Legislature.

Congressional redistricting is one of the 19 items on Abbott’s special session agenda.

A public hearing is required before a bill can advance for a vote on the Senate floor. Senators approved an identical bill on August 12 in the first special session.

The previous effort to pass the redistricting legislation failed after more than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state to break quorum. Democratic lawmakers say the new map is an attack on the representation of minority voters in the districts being redrawn.

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