2007 House Bill 4935

Add back prisoners to census total for reapportionment

Introduced in the House

June 19, 2007

Introduced by Rep. LaMar Lemmons (D-2)

To require the census figures used to reapportion legislative and congressional districts to be adjusted to add back to a community’s population the number of current prisoners whose pre-incarceration address was in that community.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations