Title: End Prison Gerrymandering Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
End Prison Gerrymandering Act
This bill requires the Department of Commerce, beginning with the 2030 decennial census, to attribute an individual incarcerated in a correctional 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.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6550 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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. Garcia 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

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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 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 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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