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119-hr-7375119th Congress

End Prison Gerrymandering Act

Sponsored By: Representative Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2]

Introduced

Summary

count incarcerated people at their last usual place of residence. This bill would require the Census Bureau to attribute people held in state, Federal, county, municipal, and youth detention facilities to the address where they usually lived before incarceration, beginning with the 2030 decennial census.

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  • Families and home communities would see those individuals added to their local census counts used for congressional redistricting. This shifts representation toward the communities where people lived before incarceration.
  • Towns and counties that host prisons would no longer have incarcerated people counted as residents for redistricting purposes. That reduces the population counts that those host communities currently receive.
  • State redistricting officials would be required to treat an incarcerated person’s last usual place of residence in the State as that person’s residence when drawing congressional districts. The change links census tabulation to redistricting rules for the 2030 census and after.

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Count incarcerated people at home

This bill would require the Census Bureau, beginning with the 2030 census, to count people in jail or prison at their last usual residence before incarceration. It would apply to anyone incarcerated in State, Federal, county, or municipal correctional facilities, and in youth correctional facilities or detention centers on census day. The bill would also require States, for congressional redistricting, to treat that last usual residence as the person’s place of residence when the census attributes them to the State. If enacted, some communities where people last lived could see higher population counts and places that host prisons could see lower counts.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Ross, Deborah K. [D-NC-2]

NC • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5]

    MO • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]

    WI • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Sykes, Emilia Strong [D-OH-13]

    OH • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]

    VA • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Lee, Summer L. [D-PA-12]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12]

    NJ • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]

    IL • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]

    DC • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Dean, Madeleine [D-PA-4]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 2/4/2026

  • Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]

    WI • D

    Sponsored 2/9/2026

  • Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12]

    MI • D

    Sponsored 6/15/2026

Roll Call Votes

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