Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday will continue debating proposed congressional district maps after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June that the current map most likely violates the Voting Rights Act.

Legislative committees will consider several proposals today, including one that was approved by the Republican-controlled reapportionment committee on Monday.

A key question: Will Alabama’s new map have one majority Black district or two?

Blacks make up slightly more than one-fourth of the population. Alabama’s current map, which has not changed much since 1992, has one majority Black district out of seven.

Last year, a three-judge district court ruled that Alabama’s map most likely violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the influence of Black voters. The Supreme Court’s ruling in June affirmed that.

The three-judge district court said that to fix the problem, Alabama needed to add a second district that was majority Black or close to that to give Black voters an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice in a state with racially polarized voting.

On Monday, the GOP-led reapportionment committee, in a 14-6 vote along party lines, approved a map that maintains one majority Black district, District 7.

In District 2, the map would raise the Black voting age population in District 2 to 42%. Reapportionment Committee Co-Chair Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, said District 2 was intended to be the second district where Black voters would have an opportunity to elect their candidate in accordance with the court order.

Democrats on the committee oppose that plan, now called the Pringle plan. They support several alternatives. Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, and Rep. Chris England, D-Tuscaloosa, are sponsoring a plan supported by the plaintiffs who prevailed in their lawsuit at the Supreme Court. The Figures plan would maintain District 7 as a majority Black district. It would raise the Black voting age population in District 2 to 50.08%.

House and Senate committees are scheduled to consider the Pringle plan, the Figures plan, and several others Tuesday.

The three-judge court has given the state until Friday to approve a new map to be used in next year’s elections If the Legislature fails to approve a map, the court has an expert in place to draw a map.