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MI HB5960

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/17/2010

Primary Sponsor

Fred Durhal

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Origin

House of Representatives

95th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Requires state and local governmental entities operating incarceration facilities to submit reports to the Secretary of State by June 1 of decennial census years, including names, demographics (age, gender, race), and last pre-incarceration addresses of all incarcerated persons counted in the federal census.

  • Directs the Secretary of State to adjust federal census population counts by removing incarcerated persons from the geographic units where facilities are located and reallocating them to their last residential addresses before incarceration.

  • Requires the Secretary of State to prepare and disseminate adjusted population counts to all relevant geographic units by September 1 following release of tract-level census data.

  • Mandates that state governmental bodies use the most recent adjusted population counts when redistricting any election districts subject to the one-person-one-vote requirement.

Legislative Description

Legislature; apportionment; census figures; adjust to reflect preincarceration address of prisoners. Creates new act.

Corrections, prisoners

Last Action

Printed Bill Filed 03/18/2010

3/18/2010

Committee Referrals

Judiciary3/17/2010

Full Bill Text

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