People who are incarcerated would be counted in the census at their home address before prison rather than at the prison's location under the End Prison Gerrymandering Act. Starting with the 2030 census, the Census Bureau would be required to attribute each incarcerated person to their last usual place of residence. States would then use that home address — not the prison — when drawing congressional district boundaries. The change affects how political representation is distributed, since prisons are often in rural areas far from where incarcerated people lived.
Congressional Summary
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.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-02-04
- Date Added
- 2026-04-10
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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