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Legislation

Census reform legislation falls in to one of three types:

  1. state legislation to adjust the federal census to count incarcerated people at home for redistricting purposes in that state,
  2. state legislation that requires that legislative districts not be based on prison counts, and
  3. federal legislation that requires, and state legislative resolutions that request, the Census Bureau change how incarcerated people are counted

Current legislation

Efforts in previous legislative sessions: