Great bill.

This bill is basically supporting the constitution.

its sad when we need a bill to support something that wasn’t supposed to need supporting. im only 20 and im sometimes disgusted with this fact.

upon receiving the American Community Survey and reading the questionnaire I became aware of a momentary feeling of malaise. When you get the survey, the envelope comes printed with very threatening language that sends the message: “You WILL fill out this survey or else!”

I will have to find out what or else means.

I’m grateful this bill exists, hopefully it will become law to help out the Americans who don’t know their rights.

I wholly support H.R.3131! The ACS is a research tool to collect self-reported data, using human subjects. To force completion via threats is unethical. I conduct research involving human subjects and abide by CFR Title 45 Part 46.

After WWII and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Nuremburg code was created following horrific accounts of treatment to human subjects of research studies. Now, the Code of Federal Regulations, 45 Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects covers research by any federal agency. This is a federal regulation, not a suggested practice.

46.116 (general requirements), paragraph 8 states: “A statement that participation is voluntary, refusal to participate will involve no penalty or loss of benefits…" “The subject may discontinue participation at any time without penalty…”

It is a person’s right to choose whether or not to participate. By using threats, the ACS not only violates ethics in research, but also seems to violate CFR 45 part 46.