Short Takeaways:Kansas GOP leaders are circulating petitions to call a special redistricting session. Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. Kansas Republican House Speaker Dan Hawkins has set the wheels in motion to call a special legislative session for mid-decade redistricting, a Republican lawmaker said on Tuesday. The petition marks the first concrete steps Kansas has taken toward an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting process, where states gerrymander congressional districts off-schedule from the census. Multiple lawmakers told the Kansas News Service they expect redistricting to come up when Kansas Republicans visit the White House in October.