It’s on to Plan 2 for the Legislative Services Agency after the Iowa Senate rejected the first plan for redistricting the state’s congressional and legislative boundaries.

The House did not take a vote after all 32 Republicans in the Senate voted down the plan. Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver, a Republican from Ankeny, says state law has guidelines requiring the population count to vary by less than one percent from district to district, and for the districts to be as geographically compact as possible.

He  says the first set of maps were rejected two out of the four previous times the Iowa legislature has approved a redistricting plan under the current state law.

Under the state’s constitution, the Iowa Supreme Court now has authority over the process, but the court has given legislators authority to continue through the steps outlined in state law.