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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5611
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 1261
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. DILLON, 92nd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE COUNTING OF INCARCERATED
PERSONS FOR PURPOSES OF DETERMINING LEGISLATIVE
DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to require the adjustment of 1
federal decennial census figures to count an incarcerated person as 2
residing at her last known residential address instead of at the 3
correctional facility in which such person is incarcerated. 4
Statement of Purpose:
To provide for the adjustment of population data so as to count
incarcerated persons as residents of their last town of residence rather
than as residents of the town in which the correctional facility is
located.