VA SB516 | 2020 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-04 - Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Summary

Redistricting; population data; reallocation of prison Redistricting; population data; reallocation of prison populations. Provides for the preparation of adjusted population data for redistricting and reapportionment purposes to reflect the reallocation of persons incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities. The bill provides that a person incarcerated in a correctional facility whose legal residence prior to entering custody was located within the Commonwealth will be deemed to reside at such residence, and a person incarcerated in a correctional facility whose legal residence prior to entering custody was located outside of the Commonwealth or whose legal residence prior to entering custody cannot be determined will not be included in the population count for the locality in which the facility is located; instead, such persons shall be allocated to a state unit not tied to a specific determined geographic location in the same manner as other state residents with an unknown address are allocated. Under the current residence criteria of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, incarcerated persons are counted at the facility in which they are incarcerated. The bill directs the Division of Legislative Services to prepare the adjusted population data, and the General Assembly and local governing bodies are required to use this data as the basis for reapportioning and drawing new districts. The Director of the Department of Corrections and the Board of Corrections are required to provide to the Division certain information about each person incarcerated who was incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility on the day the decennial census is taken, April 1 of a year ending in zero, for these purposes. The Division is directed to request such information from each agency operating a federal correctional facility in the Commonwealth, and persons incarcerated in a federal correctional facility for whom a record is not received shall be deemed to have a legal residence prior to entering

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Title

Redistricting; population data, reallocation of prison populations.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2020-02-04SenatePassed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
2020-01-07SenateReferred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-07SenatePrefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102409D

Code Citations

ChapterArticleSectionCitation TypeStatute Text
242304.1(n/a)See Bill Text
242314(n/a)See Bill Text
53110(n/a)See Bill Text
5315.2(n/a)See Bill Text

Virginia State Sources


Bill Comments

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