End Prison Gerrymandering Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7375 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7375

 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 4, 2026

Ms. Ross (for herself, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Pocan, Mrs. Sykes, Mr. Deluzio, 
Mr. Beyer, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Garcia of 
  Illinois, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
 Government 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, 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.''.
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