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Legislation

Ideally, the Census Bureau would count incarcerated people as residents of their home, not prison, addresses. But states need not wait for the Census Bureau to change. They can take action on their own, as Delaware, Maryland and New York have done. To help other states, we've prepared:

Enacted legislation

Efforts in previous legislative sessions:

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