(The Center Square) — Two of New York's most vulnerable House lawmakers have filed a bipartisan bill that would ban mid-decade congressional redistricting in response to a nationwide partisan battle over political maps.

The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, co-chaired by Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat, filed four federal bills this week that call for banning mid-decade redistricting and setting uniform nationwide map-drawing standards.

The four bills, hammered out by the Caucus’s bipartisan Gerrymandering Working Group, would require congressional districts to be drawn through independent citizen redistricting commissions designed to reduce direct partisan influence from politicians over the map-drawing process.

The Transparent Redistricting Under Stable Timelines or TRUST Act would limit redistricting to every 10 years after the U.S. census is conducted. Ten states have already banned mid-decade redistricting in their state constitutions.

Suozzi, who represents New York's 3rd Congressional District, said the package of bills will "take politics out of redistricting and restore confidence in a system where voters choose their representatives, not the other way around."

“Gerrymandering is bad for America," Suozzi said in a statement. "It weakens the will of the voters, erodes public trust, and creates safe seats that reward extremism and disincentivize thoughtful, bipartisan collaboration."

A primary backer of the proposal is Rep. Mike Lawler, a Hudson Valley Republican and member of the caucus who has been pushing for a ban on mid-decade redistricting for more than a year in response to New York's Democratic push to redraw the state's political maps.

Lawler has co-sponsored the Problem Solvers Map-drawing Accountability and Principled Standards or MAPS Act, which would prohibit congressional districts from being drawn based on political interests and require them to have equal populations.

“Politicians in states like New York and California, or Texas and Florida should not be able to choose their elected representatives,” Lawler said Wednesday. "Under a democracy, under our constitutional republic, that power is reserved to the people."

In June, New York's Democratic-controlled Legislature approved a plan that would ask voters in the 2027 elections to approve redistricting changes that could widen their majority in the state's congressional delegation. It would allow Democrats to target Lawler’s Hudson Valley district and GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ Staten Island seat, and several Long Island and upstate Republican districts in future elections.

Last year, Hochul declared that it's "game on" with plans to redraw the blue state's congressional districts to favor Democrats after Texas moved ahead with a GOP-led redistricting plan that was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

New York's proposal added fuel to a nationwide debate over partisan redistricting efforts with several red and blue states scrambling to redraw political maps ahead of the midterm elections, when control of Congress is up for grabs.