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State lawmakers will redraw district lines in the 2011 legislative session to determine how many federal and state congressional seats, as well as State Board of Education seats each region of Texas will get.

"Everybody's going to fight for their district, for their counties, because you only get to do it once every 10 years and there's no going back," Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, said.

House committee members were briefed Wednesday about legal, technological and demographic changes that will affect redistricting plans.

If the 2010 census numbers prove true, Texas' growth over the past decade could warrant four additional Texas seats in the United States Congress.

On the other hand, slow growth in West Texas and a lack of seniority could hurt representation in some of those counties.

"I think they're going to be hurting on any experience," Rep. Delwin Jones, R-Lubbock, said.

As the current chairman of the Texas House Redistricting Committee, Jones won't be there to fight for the Lubbock area come January. Jones was defeated by a newcomer in his party's primary.

Several other long-serving West Texas Republican representatives announced retirement at the end of 2009.

"Of course, experience is a key element to preserving districts," Jones said.

Still, growing minority population in the state could be an opportunity to create minority districts.

"I would estimate you would see them in the Dallas area, because they've had such a big increase," Jones said.

Official population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau won't come out until Dec. 31., at which point lawmakers hope to have a better sense of what the process requires.