AZ SB1540

Requires the redistricting entity to prepare redistricting population data counting incarcerated persons at their residential addresses rather than at correctional facilities.

Directs the Department of Corrections to maintain each prisoner's legal residence address and race in their master record file.

Mandates the Department of Corrections deliver a report to the redistricting entity by May 1 of each decennial census year containing prisoner information including facility address, legal residence, and demographic data using anonymous identifiers.

Prohibits incarcerated persons with unknown or out-of-state residences from being counted toward any geographic district population and requires they be allocated to a non-geographic state unit instead.

Requires redistricting population data be completed and published within 30 days of the federal census data release and prohibits its use in distributing state or federal aid.