To prevent congressional reapportionment distortions by requiring that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included for respondents to indicate citizenship status or lawful presence in the United States.
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To prevent congressional reapportionment distortions by requiring that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included for respondents to indicate citizenship status or lawful presence in the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Ms. FOXX (for herself and Mr. CHAFFETZ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government ReformCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
To prevent congressional reapportionment distortions by requiring that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be included for respondents to indicate citizenship status or lawful presence in the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SEC. 2. CITIZENSHIP OR LAWFUL PRESENCE STATUS ON CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES.
In conducting the 2010 decennial census and every decennial census thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include, in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used for the purpose of determining the total population by States, a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate citizenship status or lawful presence in the United States.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SEC. 3. PREVENTION OF CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT DISTORTIONS.
(a) Adjustments To Prevent Distortions- Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(g) The Secretary shall make such adjustments in total population figures as may be necessary, using such methods and procedures as the Secretary determines feasible and appropriate, in order that those who are not United States citizens or are not lawfully present in the United States are not counted in tabulating population under subsection (b) for the purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to supersede section 195 of this title.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(b) Conforming Amendment- Section 22(a) of the Act entitled ‘An Act To provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress’, of June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ‘as ascertained under the seventeenth and each subsequent decennial census of the population’ and inserting ‘as ascertained and reported under section 141 of title 13, United States Code, for each decennial census of population’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.3797 as Introduced in House Fairness in Representation Act
