INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WOWO): Indiana won‘t redraw its congressional and legislative districts for six years, but legislative leaders are setting wheels in motion now to change the process.

House Speaker Brian Bosma has long favored an independent redistricting commission. This year, Senate President Pro Tem David Long agrees it‘s time to at least study the idea.

He and Bosma plan to ask legislators to green-light a blue-ribbon commission to spend up to two years reviewing the various ways other states conduct redistricting. Long says the committee will compare different states’ variations on the idea of an independent commission, and look at how well those commissions have worked — he says some states have been dissatisfied with the results.

Bosma says an independent commission at least has the potential to take the partisanship out of redistricting. Bosma and Long say the committee needs to get started this summer to have a new redistricting method in place by the next redraw in 2021.

Long notes there‘s a potential complicating factor in the state constitution, which states the legislature conducts redistricting.

He says a bill this year will propose that legislators “may” delegate that responsibility, in order to keep that door open while legislators study the issue.