End Prison Gerrymandering Act

Bill: 118-hr-2905
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2]
Introduced: 2023-04-26
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2023-04-26
text: 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.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-04-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <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>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2905 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 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. Short title This Act may be cited as the End Prison Gerrymandering Act . 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. .