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MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Almost all of St. Clair County would be moved from the 6th Congressional District to the 3rd District, which includes much of east-central Alabama, under a redistricting plan a legislative committee approved today.
   
  The Constitution and Elections Committee of the state House of Representatives voted 6-2 to reject the congressional map approved by the Senate last week, which was proposed by Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale. Instead, the committee adopted the redistricting plan approved by the Legislature’s 22-member reapportionment committee two weeks ago.
   
  The revised plan could be debated by the full House on Wednesday. If passed there, it would face debate again in the Senate, since the House and Senate would have passed different redistricting maps.
   
  Beason said he hasn’t given up on eventually getting his plan passed.
   
  Under the committee-approved redistricting plan, the 6th District still would include much of metro Birmingham. But all of Coosa County, not just a western portion, would be in the 6th and most of St. Clair County would be moved from the 6th to the 3rd District. A sliver of north St. Clair County would remain in the 4th congressional district, where it is now. The 4th District would retain Walker, Cullman, Blount, Etowah and other counties.
   
  The 7th congressional district would remain large unchanged. It now covers much of west-central Alabama and a sliver of southwest and central Jefferson County, including much of Birmingham, Fairfield and Bessemer. Under the plan, it would be expanded to include Lowndes County and part of northwest Montgomery County.
   
  The plan would redraw Alabama’s congressional districts to put 682,819 or 682,820 people in each district, as counted by the 2010 census.

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