Republican legislators could make it easier for them to implement new congressional maps that retain four safe Republican districts, based on a draft of a bill unveiled Sunday. Utah’s Legislative Redistricting Committee met Monday in its first public hearing to discuss five newly drawn congressional maps and the proposed legislation.

Lawmakers are currently redrawing congressional maps, as directed by the courts. Under the judge’s order, lawmakers have to draw the new maps to comply with requirements in 2018’s Better Boundaries initiative, also known as Proposition 4.

That initiative prohibits the commission from drawing districts “that purposefully or unduly favors or disfavors any incumbent elected official, candidate or prospective candidate for elective office, or any political par

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