The Alabama Legislature’s effort to approve a new congressional map has moved to a conference committee of three senators and three representatives.

Friday is the deadline for lawmakers to approve a new map. The House and Senate have passed different maps, both backed by Republicans and opposed by Democrats.

Friday morning, the House sent its version back to the Senate, which voted 30-0 not to concur and send the bill to a conference committee. The House then agreed to appoint a conference committee.

The six lawmakers on the committee, four Republicans and two Democrats, will attempt to develop a compromise that can win approval in both chambers.

On June 8, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a district court ruling that Alabama’s current map, with one majority Black district out of seven, most likely violates the Voting Rights Act in a state where one-fourth of residents are Black.

The district court, made up of three judges, two appointed by President Trump, said that to fix the likely voting rights violation the Legislature would need to add a second majority Black district or “or something quite close to it.”

The plans approved by the House and Senate leave District 7 as the state’s only majority Black congressional district.

The plan that passed the House, by Speaker Pro Tem Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, redraws District 2 to increase the Black voting age population from 30% to 42%. The plan that passed the Senate, by Sen. Steve Livingston, R-Scottsboro, increases the Black voting age population in District 2 from 30% to 38%.

Pringle and Livingston said their maps follow the court order because they make District 2 a district where Black voters would have an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.

Democrats dispute that and said the Republican majority is defying the court.

“I understand I don’t control the narrative,” said Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, the lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits challenging the current map. “I’m just asking for those that do control the narrative to do the right thing.”

Democrats have proposed alternative plans but the Republican majority has rejected those.