{"id":4953,"date":"2012-02-02T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:26:50","slug":"hb13-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2012\/02\/02\/hb13-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia bill against prison-based gerrymandering passes House unanimously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?121+sum+HB13\">HB 13<\/a>, which would allow more counties to reject prison-based gerrymandering, passed unanimously in the Virginia House. The bill, sponsored by Del. Riley Ingram, will now advance to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Current Virgina law allows a county to exclude prison populations for redistricting purposes only if the prison population makes up 12% or more of the county&#8217;s total population. HB 13 would allow any county with a <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/12\/30\/va-counties\/\">single district that&#8217;s 12% or more incarcerated<\/a> to exclude prison populations for redistricting purposes, <a href=\"\/news\/2011\/12\/21\/va-bill\/\">more than doubling<\/a> the number of counties eligible to avoid prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>As the <i>Roanoke Times<\/i> so <a href=\"\/news\/2012\/01\/06\/roanoke-times\/\">succinctly put it<\/a>, HB 13 &#8220;would move the commonwealth in the right direction&#8221; towards ending prison-based gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB 13, which would allow more counties to reject prison-based gerrymandering, passed unanimously in the Virginia House and now advances to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}