Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “End Prison Gerrymandering Act”.
End Prison Gerrymandering Act
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.
Sec. 2 Residence of incarcerated individuals
by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
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.”
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.”