Topeka ? A Kansas House redistricting proposal continued its quiet ride toward becoming law Wednesday.

No one opposed the map during a 20-minute public hearing before the Kansas Supreme Court, and the seven justices asked no questions.

In the Legislature, the bill for redrawing the 125 House districts avoided the controversy that surrounded Kansas Senate and U.S. redistricting plans.

“This was good practice for the Senate map,” Atty. Gen. Carla Stovall said.

Stovall presented the map to the court and told the justices that the plan met all legal and constitutional requirements.

Legislators are redrawing all of the state’s Kansas House, Kansas Senate, State Board of Education and U.S. House districts this year to adjust for population changes reflected in the 2000 census.

The court has until May 5 to rule on the Kansas House plan. Gov. Bill Graves already has signed it, so if the court accepts it, it will become law.

The bill pairs four Democrats in two new districts and puts incumbent Republicans against Democratic incumbents in two other new districts.

“This one was really cut and dried,” said Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh, whose office oversees elections. “The House did what it is supposed to do with making it public and following the process.”

Though not all House members were pleased with the map, it was not the contentious issue nor did it draw the same attention that Senate and congressional redistricting drew in Legislature.

The Senate had to draft a second plan for its chamber’s districts after Graves vetoed a first plan, saying it circumvented the committee process. Stovall has until April 26 to review the second Senate plan before it goes to the Supreme Court.

A State Board of Education plan has gone to Graves, but he has not signed the bill.

The House and Senate have passed different congressional redistricting plans, and negotiators are supposed to draft a compromise. Last week, the Senate approved its proposal, backed by the White House and Republican National Committee, which puts western Kansas in the same district with southeast Kansas.

Thornburgh said redistricting has to be finished by May 11 not to jeopardize the June 24 filing deadline for Kansas House, State Board of Education and U.S. House races. State senators don’t face re-election until 2004.

The filing deadline for statewide races U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, insurance commissioner, state treasurer and secretary of state is June 10.

Normally, the deadline is June 10 for all offices, but state law sets it two weeks later when an office is affected by redistricting.

“I know the Legislature has a lot of things to do,” Thornburgh said. “But democracy ranks right up there for me.”