Sen. John Blake, D-Lackawanna, announced plans to reintroduce SB 464 of the 2017-18 session, which would amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to reform how state legislative and congressional districts are redrawn.

“As a candidate for the Senate and as a sitting senator, I have consistently held the position that legislators should not have a direct hand in drawing their own legislative districts—we should not be choosing our voters, voters should be choosing us,” Blake said in a Dec. 26 co-sponsorship memorandum.