Congress·In Committee·H.R. 7375

End Prison Gerrymandering Act

House Bill Would Count Prisoners at Home Addresses, Not Prison Locations, Starting in 2030

Next up: A house committee

This bill is currently in the House committee stage and has not moved since February 2026. It must be reviewed by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on the Judiciary before it can proceed. Because no action has occurred for five months, the bill is considered stalled.

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Reintroduced
Reintroduced from H.R. 2905 (118th), which died when its Congress ended.
H.R. 2905 (118th) →

Key Points

A new bill introduced by Ms. Ross would change how the U.S. Census Bureau counts people living in prisons and jails. Instead of counting them at the prison's location, the government would count them at their last home address before they were incarcerated.
This change would apply to everyone held in federal, state, county, or local correctional facilities, as well as youth detention centers. The new rules would officially begin with the 2030 Census.
Currently, many rural areas with large prisons gain extra political power because their population numbers look higher, even though incarcerated people usually cannot vote there. This policy aims to return that political representation to the prisoners' home communities.
The bill requires states to use these updated home-address numbers when drawing new maps for Congressional districts. This ensures that the number of representatives a community gets is based on where people actually live and where their families are located.
By shifting where people are counted, this could also affect how much government funding different cities and towns receive, as many federal programs distribute money based on Census population data.

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Impact Analysis

Personal Impact

Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works

Renters in urban areas — where most incarcerated people lived before prison — could see a small boost in political representation and federal funding as population counts shift toward cities. However, renters living near prisons in rural areas could see their community lose population counts and the resources tied to them. The net effect depends heavily on where you live.

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Scores: -5 (harmful) to +5 (beneficial)Short-term: 0-2 yearsLong-term: 10-30 years

Milestones

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Feb 4, 2026House

Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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Feb 4, 2026

Introduced in House

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Source Information

Document Type

Congressional Bill

Official Title

End Prison Gerrymandering Act

Bill NumberHR 7375

Congress119th Congress

ChamberHouse of Representatives

Latest ActionReferred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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