Equal Representation Act
Sponsored by Chuck Edwards
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 386.
May 14, 2024
This bill requires the decennial census questionnaire to include a checkbox option for respondents to indicate U.S. citizenship status for themselves and household members. It directs the Department of Commerce to publicly report the count of citizens and noncitizens by state. It also requires that the President's statement to Congress on state population counts—used for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives—exclude noncitizens from those figures.
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Equal Representation Act This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a U.S. citizen. The Department of Commerce must make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state. The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) exclude noncitizens.