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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6550 

To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that individuals in prison 

shall, for the purposes of a decennial census, be attributed to the last 

usual place of residence before incarceration, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 1, 2022 

Ms. ROSS (for herself, Mr. POCAN, Ms. DEAN, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DANNY K. 

DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. NORTON, Ms. JACOBS of California, 

Mr. JONES, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. TORRES of New York, 

Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, and Mr. GARCI ́A of 

Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committee on 

the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 

in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide that 

individuals in prison shall, for the purposes of a decennial census, be attributed to the last usual place of 

residence before incarceration, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End Prison Gerry5 mandering Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RESIDENCE OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. 

2 (a) RESIDENCE.—Section 141 of title 13, United 

3 States Code, is amended— 

4 (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub5 section (h); and 

6 (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol7 lowing: 

8 ‘‘(g) Effective beginning with the 2030 decennial cen9 sus of population and every census thereafter, in taking 

10 any census of population under subsection (a) the Sec11 retary shall, with respect to an individual incarcerated in 

12 a State, Federal, county, or municipal correctional facility 

13 as of the decennial census date, attribute such individual 

14 to such individual’s last usual place of residence before 

15 incarceration.’’. 

16 (b) USE OF RESIDENCE FOR PURPOSES OF CON17 GRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING.—Section 22 of the Act enti18 tled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 

19 decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 

20 of Representatives in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 

21 (2 U.S.C. 2a), is amended by adding at the end the fol22 lowing new subsection: 

23 ‘‘(d) If the tabulation of the number of persons in 

24 a State under subsection (a) includes an individual incar25 cerated in a State, Federal, county, or municipal correc26 tional facility who is treated as a resident of the State 


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1 because the tabulation attributes the individual to the in2 dividual’s last usual place of residence before incarcer3 ation, as provided under section 141(g) of title 13, United 

4 States Code, the State shall treat the individual’s last 

5 usual place of residence in the State before incarceration 

6 as the individual’s place of residence for purposes of con7 gressional redistricting.’’. 

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