CT HB06679

Department of Correction must provide Secretary of State with unique identifiers, facility addresses, pre-incarceration residential addresses, race, national origin, and age for all incarcerated persons on the decennial census date, with data kept confidential and not disclosing names.

Secretary of State must request federal facilities operating in the state to provide the same incarcerated person information listed in the state requirement.

Secretary of State shall adjust census population counts to attribute incarcerated persons to their last known residential address in Connecticut if known, and remove them from the correctional facility location counts.

For incarcerated persons with unknown or out-of-state residential addresses, Secretary of State shall adjust counts to attribute them to an unknown location within the state and remove them from facility location counts.

Adjusted census data must be prepared within 21 days of redistricting data publication and used as the basis for determining state assembly and senatorial districts and distributing state or federal funds, effective July 1, 2013.