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The bill would give state governments more detailed dual‑citizenship data for planning and redistricting but raises privacy risks, could depress census participation (threatening representation and funding), and increases administrative costs for the Census Bureau.
State governments will receive more detailed data on residents who hold dual citizenship, allowing more informed redistricting decisions and targeted allocation of state resources.
States and taxpayers could lose political representation and federal funding if added nationality questions reduce census participation or accuracy.
Individuals who are dual citizens (including many immigrants) would face increased privacy risks from having their citizenship status linked to census records.
The Census Bureau would incur additional legal, administrative, and data‑security burdens and costs to collect and protect detailed nationality information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
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 decennial census questionnaire beginning with the 2030 census asking whether each person is a dual citizen of the United States and another country, and to identify the other country. The change applies to the questionnaire(s) used to determine total population by state and will require the Census Bureau to collect and store that additional citizenship information for every household member listed.