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The bill would give governments and researchers more consistent, useful data about residents' country‑of‑citizenship for planning and research, but it raises meaningful privacy and response‑rate risks and imposes additional costs on taxpayers.
State and local governments, along with researchers and planners, would gain new, consistent data on residents' country-of‑citizenship/dual‑citizenship that can improve redistricting, representation planning, and policy/program design.
Census users would have a standardized question across future decennial censuses, improving the consistency and comparability of longitudinal data about foreign ties and dual citizenship.
Immigrants and other respondents may face increased privacy and confidentiality risks from collecting country‑of‑citizenship information, raising concerns about data disclosure and trust.
Respondents reluctant to answer the citizenship question could lower census response rates or data quality, which may harm apportionment, funding allocation, and the accuracy of statistics used for public services.
Taxpayers would bear additional administrative costs for designing, testing, and implementing the new question on the decennial census (outreach, testing, and processing).
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Census Bureau to add a checkbox or similar option on the 2030 and future decennial census forms for respondents to indicate dual citizenship and name the other country.
Introduced December 5, 2025 by Abraham J. Hamadeh · Last progress December 5, 2025
Requires the Census Bureau to add a checkbox or similar option on the 2030 decennial census and every decennial census after that for respondents to indicate dual citizenship for themselves and each household member, including naming the other country of citizenship. Also makes a technical renumbering change to an existing subsection of the census statute. The new question must appear on questionnaires used to determine total population by States and takes effect starting with the 2030 decennial census.