Bill Text: NJ A659 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - Reported out of Assembly Committee, 2nd Reading [A659 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2014-A659-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 659

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2014 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOSEPH CRYAN

District 20 (Union)

Assemblyman  JOHN S. WISNIEWSKI

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  SHEILA Y. OLIVER

District 34 (Essex and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  ANNETTE QUIJANO

District 20 (Union)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires incarcerated individual be counted for redistricting purposes at previous address if State resident and not counted if incarcerated and not State resident.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

  

An Act concerning the use of certain federal decennial census information for redistricting purposes and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the population count used by the Apportionment Commission to create legislative districts pursuant to Article IV, Sections II and III of the New Jersey Constitution, used by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission to create Congressional districts pursuant to Article II, Section II of the New Jersey Constitution, and used to conduct any other form of redistricting required to be conducted pursuant to law shall not include an individual incarcerated in a State or federal correctional institution in this State on the day the federal decennial census is conducted in this State if that individual was not a resident of this State before incarceration.

     The population count used for redistricting purposes shall, however, include an individual incarcerated in a State or federal correctional institution in this State on the day the federal decennial census is conducted in this State if that individual was a resident of this State before incarceration.  Such an individual shall be counted at the street address and census block that corresponds to the individual's last known address before incarceration.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

     This bill provides that the population count used by the Apportionment Commission to create legislative districts, by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission to create Congressional districts, and used to conduct any other form of redistricting required to be conducted is not to include an individual incarcerated in a State or federal correctional institution in this State on the day the federal decennial census is conducted in this State if that individual was not a resident of this State before incarceration.

     The bill does, however, provide that the population count used for redistricting purposes must include an individual incarcerated in a State or federal correctional institution in this State on the day the census is conducted in this State if that individual was a resident of this State before incarceration.  Such an individual must be counted at the street address and census block that corresponds to the individual's last known address before incarceration.

     This bill is similar to legislation enacted in 2010 in Delaware, Maryland and New York.