Texas lawmakers are set to gavel in at 10 a.m. Friday for what could be the final day of the state's first special session as House Democrats remain out of state in a bid to block Republican redistricting plans that would add five GOP seats to Congress.

The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at the top of the governor’s priorities.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called a second special session Friday after gaveling out the first 30-day session, hamstrung by fleeing Democrats who left the state.