INDIANAPOLIS — The 2026 Indiana Legislative Session will get fully underway starting on Monday, Dec. 1, in a break with long tradition.

Technically, each legislative session starts with "Organization Day" in November. But lawmakers rarely stay to do any official business beyond voting to come back to do business in January.

That isn't the only tradition that is being set aside for President Donald Trump's push to redraw Indiana's legislative districts . On Monday, Dec. 1, Indiana House Republicans released a draft of what that map would look like.

Normally, congressional maps are only redrawn after new census data is received. Lawmakers have to redraw maps then, to make sure each district has equal population. Under Indiana's constitution, that's the only time that state legislative map

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