Chapter 1. General Provisions of California Elections Code >> Division 21. >> Chapter 1.

The county elections official in each county shall compile and make available to the Legislature or any appropriate committee of the Legislature any information and statistics that may be necessary for use in connection with the reapportionment of legislative districts, including, but not limited to, precinct maps indicating the boundaries of municipalities, school districts, judicial districts, Assembly districts, senatorial districts, and congressional districts, lists showing the election returns for each precinct, and election returns for each precinct reflecting the vote total for all ballots cast, including both vote by mail ballots and ballots cast at polling places, compiled pursuant to Section 15321 in the county at each statewide election. If the county elections official stores the information and statistics in data-processing files, he or she shall make the files available, along with whatever documentation shall be necessary in order to allow the use of the files by the appropriate committee of the Legislature and shall retain these files until the next reapportionment has been completed.

(a) Appropriate committees of the Legislature shall prepare detailed maps showing the boundaries of any districts established by this division on or after January 1, 1991. These maps shall be prepared no later than 90 days following the enactment of any redistricting plan pursuant to this division, and shall illustrate the boundary lines of every district described in the redistricting plan. The maps shall be provided to the Secretary of State for distribution in accordance with subdivisions (b) and (c), and to the county elections officials for use in their administrative functions involved in the conduct of elections, not later than the first day on which in-lieu-filing-fee petitions may be obtained for the 2002 direct primary election.
  (b) The Secretary of State shall provide each Member of the Senate, Assembly, and the State Board of Equalization, and each Member of Congress from California, with one copy of a map or maps of his or her district. One copy of the entire set of maps for the Assembly shall be provided to the Assembly Committee on Rules, one copy of the entire set of maps for the Senate shall be provided to the Senate Committee on Rules, and one copy of the entire set of maps for the State Board of Equalization shall be provided to the State Board of Equalization.
  (c) The Secretary of State shall also make copies of the maps available for public inspection.
  (d) There shall be no charge for the maps provided pursuant to this section.

Each house of the Legislature shall be a proper party to, and, if not originally named as a party, shall have the right to intervene in, any action involving the validity or application of any statute that provides for changes in the boundaries of any legislative districts of members of that particular house.

(a) (1) Not sooner than April 1, 2020, and not later than July 1, 2020, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall furnish to the Citizens Redistricting Commission information regarding the last known place of residence of each inmate incarcerated in a state adult correctional facility, except an inmate whose last known place of residence is outside of California.
  (2) The information furnished by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation pursuant to paragraph (1) shall include the following for each inmate:
  (A) A unique identifier, other than the inmate's name or Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation number.
  (B) If the Statewide Offender Management System is fully operational on or before April 1, 2020, last known place of residence information that is sufficiently specific to determine the congressional, State Senatorial, State Assembly, or State Board of Equalization district in which the inmate's last known place of residence is located. This information may include, but not be limited to, census block information or street address information from which a census block can be derived.
  (C) If the Statewide Offender Management System is not fully operational on or before April 1, 2020, last known place of residence information that is as specific as feasible under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's database system and from which census block information can be derived.
  (3) In 2030 and in each year ending in the number zero thereafter, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall furnish the information specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) to the Citizens Redistricting Commission not sooner than the decennial Census Day and not later than 90 days thereafter.
  (4) For purposes of this subdivision, "inmate incarcerated in a state adult correctional facility" includes an inmate who, as of April 1, 2020, has been transferred to a facility outside of California to complete his or her term of incarceration.
  (5) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall exclude all inmates in state custody for whom a last known place of residence within California cannot be determined and all inmates in federal custody in a facility within California from the information furnished pursuant to this section.
  (b) Consistent with Section 2025, the Legislature hereby requests the Citizens Redistricting Commission to deem each incarcerated person as residing at his or her last known place of residence, rather than at the institution of his or her incarceration, and to utilize the information furnished to it pursuant to subdivision (a) in carrying out its redistricting responsibilities under Article XXI of the California Constitution. The Legislature also requests the commission to do all of the following when it uses information regarding inmates that is furnished pursuant to this section:
  (1) Regardless of the form in which the information is furnished, refrain from publishing any information regarding a specific inmate's last known place of residence.
  (2) Deem an inmate in state custody in a facility within California for whom the last known place of residence is either outside California or cannot be determined, or an inmate in federal custody in a facility within California, to reside at an unknown geographical location in the state and exclude the inmate from the population count for any district, ward, or precinct.
  (3) Adjust race and ethnicity data in districts, wards, and precincts that contain prisons in a manner that reflects reductions in the local population as inmates are included in the population count of the district, ward, or precinct of their last known place of residence.
  (c) For purposes of this section, "last known place of residence" means the address at which the inmate was last domiciled prior to his or her current term of incarceration, as determined from the court records of the county in which the inmate was sentenced to his or her current term of incarceration.