California state lawmakers are taking a series of votes in a bid to pass a mid-decade redistricting plan, a move that comes just hours after Republicans in the Texas House passed new maps of their own.

The vote overcame weeks of protests from House Democrats who fled the state to stall a vote on the mid-cycle redistricting.

California's Democratic Legislature is expected to counter Texas' mid-decade redraw of its congressional map with one of its own. Texas Republicans passed a map creating five new winnable seats