Topeka ? Three weeks after Gov. Bill Graves vetoed a proposed new map of the state Senate, a slightly revised version won a committee’s endorsement Thursday.

Like the vetoed version, the map that cleared the Senate Reapportionment Committee on a 6-5 vote was produced by a coalition of minority Democrats and conservative Republicans.

That 21-member group had stunned the Senate’s moderate Republican leadership in mid-February by presenting its favored map during floor debate and pushing it to passage in the 40-member chamber. Graves and Senate moderates had favored a different version.

The latest map answers one of Graves’ publicly stated concerns that the map he vetoed was neither considered by a committee nor presented to the public for comment and reaction.

But the new version retains features that Graves had found objectionable, such as the creation of a new, seventh Senate district in Johnson County in a way many believe would favor a conservative Republican over a GOP moderate.

Joining the coalition’s five members on the Reapportionment Committee in Thursday’s vote to endorse the map was Sen. Dave Corbin.

“The map needs to be moved,” said Corbin, R-Towanda. “There’s been too much chaos.”

Legislators this year are redrawing the districts of the Kansas House and Senate, the State Board of Education and the state’s four U.S. House seats to reflect shifts in population.

The emergence of the coalition has made the Senate redistricting effort especially thorny.

For fast-growing Johnson County, moderate Republicans preferred creating a new Senate district in which Shane Jones a declared Senate candidate would not have to run against an incumbent. Jones, of Overland Park, is the Republican chairman in the 3rd Congressional District, and Graves has campaigned for him.

But GOP conservatives want to put the new district in the county’s more rural southeastern corner, farther from metropolitan Kansas City.

Both the map that Graves vetoed and the version endorsed Thursday would do just that. The latest version is slightly revised but would still force Jones to run in a primary against incumbent Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood.

Another dispute emerged Thursday over redrawing the boundaries of two districts in southeast Kansas, currently represented by Sens. Jim Barone, D-Frontenac, and Dwayne Umbarger, R-Thayer. Barone ultimately prevailed.

Umbarger wanted Barone’s district to remain unchanged while his own district would expand from Labette and Neosho counties north into Allen County and east into Bourbon County.