Utah lawmakers will meet in a special legislative session on Monday to consider new congressional maps and address several other issues, Gov. Spencer Cox proclaimed Friday.

Lawmakers had long been eyeing a special session in September to clean up several bills from the general legislative session that wrapped up in March and enact several new policies. That changed in August when a Utah judge invalidated the state’s current congressional maps , necessitating a rushed timeline to replace those maps with new ones that conform to a 2018 ballot initiative on redistricting .

The Legislative Redistricting Committee will meet for a final time Monday morning to recommend a map to be adopted by the full Legislature in a special session that will kick off at 9 a.m. The committee met twice

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