State Rep. Nicole Collier can’t leave the Texas Capitol building because she won’t sign a paper agreeing to a state police escort.

A Fort Worth lawmaker’s sit-in on the Texas House floor picked up steam late Tuesday as fellow Democrats flocked to her side for the second night of her round-the-clock vigil after she refused to allow a state trooper to shadow her until the chamber could vote on a new congressional map.

The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement for lawmakers who had left the state over the GOP redistricting plan.

Rep. Nicole Collier is asking a Travis County district judge to rule that she’s allowed to leave the Texas Capitol. The Fort Worth Democrat has been confined to Texas Capitol since Monday after refusing to sign a “permission slip” turning her over to Texas Department of Public Safety custody for monitoring.

Democratic Texas Rep. Nicole Collier has been an outspoken critic of the redistricting maps, which she argues dilute minority voting power.

The state representative returned to Austin this week for a second special session after leaving to break quorum in the last session. She didn’t expect she’d end up sleeping in the House chambers.

She returned to the Austin building for the first time in about two weeks on Monday with other Democrats who left the Capitol to block a mid-decade congressional redistricting plan. Cheering the end of a first special session without a map passing and California's plan to redraw its federal map to favor Democrats,