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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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2023 
Ms. ROSS (for herself, Mr. POCAN, Mr. CLEAVER, and Mrs. SYKES) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Over-
sight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on the Judici-
ary, 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 decen-
nial 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 Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘End Prison Gerry-
mandering Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. RESIDENCE OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. 
(a) RESIDENCE.—Section 141 of title 13, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (h); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) Effective beginning with the 2030 decennial cen-
sus of population and every census thereafter, in taking 
any census of population under subsection (a) the Sec-
retary 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 incar-
ceration.’’. 
(b) USE OF RESIDENCE FOR PURPOSES OF CON-
GRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING.—Section 22 of the Act enti-
tled ‘‘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 fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(d) If the tabulation of the number of persons in 
a State under subsection (a) includes an individual incar-
cerated in a State, Federal, county, or municipal correc-
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tional facility, or in a youth correctional facility or deten-
tion center, who is treated as a resident of the State be-
cause the tabulation attributes the individual to the indi-
vidual’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 indi-
vidual’s place of residence for purposes of congressional 
redistricting.’’. 
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