Dems release redistricting amendment: What’s the process of getting it passed?

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- With the Virginia General Assembly debating redistricting, do you actually know the process for how Virginia may redraw its congressional maps?

It’s complicated, but below, we’ll try and explain.

Currently, there’s language in the Virginia Constitution that tasks a bipartisan commission with redrawing Virginia’s congressional maps every ten years at the beginning of each decade after a new census is completed.

However, to redraw the maps ahead of the midterms, a constitutional amendment will need to be ratified to give lawmakers the ability to redistrict mid-decade.

That amendment, which was released in the afternoon on Tuesday, Oct. 28, would keep the commission, but give the General Assembly the power to redraw the maps mid-decade through 2030 because other st