The proposed redistricting unveiled by Texas majority Republicans last week would create five new Republican-leading seats in the US House of Representatives.
Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas to try to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans.
The proposed redistricting, unveiled by Texas majority Republicans last week and backed by President Donald Trump, would create five new Republican-leading seats in the US House of Representatives.
Republicans currently have only a slender majority in the House.
Two-thirds of the 150-member state legislature must be present in order to hold a vote.
Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers have fled Texas, most of them to Illinois, denying Republicans the required quorum.
They said they planned to stay away for two weeks until the end of a special legislative session.
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