NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The state House has approved a plan to redraw the chamber's 99 districts, overriding Democrats' objections that it placed five African-American incumbents into three seats.
The chamber voted 66-25, largely along partisan lines, to approve the Republican plan on Thursday.
The version that passed undid proposals to draw to two white Nashville Democrats, Reps. Mike Stewart and Sherry Jones, into the same district. It also stepped back from plans to put Democratic Rep. Eddie Bass of Prospect in a district with Republican Rep. Vance Dennis of Savannah.
Dennis would now share a district with fellow Republican Joey Hensley of Hohenwald.
The Senate would have to agree to the House bill Friday before it could head for the governor's signature. A vote is also expected Friday on the Senate redistricting plan.
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