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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 4778. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . EQUAL REPRESENTATION ACT.
(a) Citizenship Status on Decennial Census.—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)(1) In conducting the 2030 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 the respondent to
indicate, for the respondent and for each of the members of
the household of the respondent, whether that individual is a
citizen of the United States.
“(2) Not later than 120 days after completion of a
decennial census of the population under subsection (a), the
Secretary shall make publicly available the number of
individuals per State, disaggregated by citizens of the
United States and noncitizens, as tabulated in accordance
with this section.”.
(b) Exclusion of Noncitizens From Number of Persons Used to
Determine Apportionment of Representatives and Number of
Electoral Votes.—
(1) Exclusion.—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”, approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is
amended by inserting after “not taxed” the following: “and
individuals who are not citizens of the United States”.
(2) Effective date.—The amendment made by paragraph (1)
shall apply with respect to the apportionment of
Representatives carried out pursuant to the decennial census
conducted during 2030 and any succeeding decennial census.
(c) Severability Clause.—If any provision of this section
or amendment made by this section, or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance, is held to be
unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this
section and amendments made by this section, and the
application of the provision or amendment to any other person
or circumstance, shall not be affected.