Peter Hancock | Capitol News Illinois

The proposals were submitted as a part of the lawsuits challenging the state's new legislative district maps and would create more majority Latino and Black districts.

“Masks, vaccines, and testing requirements are life-saving measures that keep our workplaces and communities safe," the governor said.

But the three-judge federal court panel in Chicago declined to order a bipartisan redistricting commission be formed to redraw the maps.

The vaccine mandate applies to state employees, contractors and vendors who work in congregate facilities and certain health care workers, school personnel and higher education employees.

A lack of public input marked redistricting hearings.

“Guidance is guidance. Guidance is not a rule. A rule is enforceable. A statute is enforceable,” one Republican representative said.

The plan adopted Tuesday night was the third draft of a redistricting plan that had been introduced in the span of 48 hours. Voting rights advocates say they didn’t have enough time to review the new maps.

“My district did choose to follow the mandate, by a 4-3 vote. Quite honestly, this decision was one made out of fear of this organization ...” said one southern Illinois school official.

Pritzker says he won’t lift disaster proclamation yet

The case alleges the use of survey data instead of the actual Census is unconstitutional.

Voting rights advocates had urged Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to wait for U.S. Census data.