[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1358 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1358

      To amend title 13, United States Code, to require that any 
 questionnaire used in determining the decennial census of population 
shall contain an option for respondents to indicate citizenship status.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 8, 2019

  Mr. Daines introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend title 13, United States Code, to require that any 
 questionnaire used in determining the decennial census of population 
shall contain an option for respondents to indicate citizenship status.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Citizens Count Census Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES.

    Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) In conducting the 2020 decennial census and each decennial 
census thereafter, the Secretary 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 whether the respondent is a citizen or national of the 
United States.''.
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