End Prison Gerrymandering Act

Subjects: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:  <p><strong>End Prison Gerrymandering Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Bureau of the Census, beginning with the 2030 decennial census, to attribute an individual incarcerated in a correctional facility or detention center to the individual's last place of residence before incarceration. Further, a state must treat such an individual's last place of residence in the state before incarceration as the individual's place of residence for purposes of congressional redistricting.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2905 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2905

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2023

    Ms. Ross (for herself, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Cleaver, and Mrs. Sykes) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Oversight and Accountability, 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

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``End Prison Gerrymandering Act''.

SEC. 2. RESIDENCE OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Residence.--Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) Effective beginning with the 2030 decennial census of 
population and every census thereafter, in taking any census of 
population under subsection (a) the Secretary shall, with respect to an 
individual incarcerated in a State, Federal, county, or municipal 
correctional facility, or in a youth correctional facility or detention 
center, as of the decennial census date, attribute such individual to 
such individual's last usual place of residence before 
incarceration.''.
    (b) Use of Residence for Purposes of Congressional Redistricting.--
Section 22 of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the fifteenth 
and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 
of Representatives in Congress'', approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) If the tabulation of the number of persons in a State under 
subsection (a) includes an individual incarcerated in a State, Federal, 
county, or municipal correctional facility, or in a youth correctional 
facility or detention center, who is treated as a resident of the State 
because the tabulation attributes the individual to the individual's 
last usual place of residence before incarceration, as provided under 
section 141(g) of title 13, United States Code, the State shall treat 
the individual's last usual place of residence in the State before 
incarceration as the individual's place of residence for purposes of 
congressional redistricting.''.
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