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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | DSESSION S. 3659 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting |
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| 6 | 6 | | on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representa- |
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| 7 | 7 | | tives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY25, 2024 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. H |
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| 11 | 11 | | AGERTY(for himself, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | S |
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| 13 | 13 | | CHMITT, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. LEE, Mr. TUBERVILLE, Mr. ROUNDS, |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mr. R |
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| 15 | 15 | | ICKETTS, Mr. BUDD, Ms. LUMMIS, Mr. RISCH, Mr. CRAPO, Mrs. |
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| 16 | 16 | | B |
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| 17 | 17 | | RITT, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. THUNE, Mr. DAINES, Mrs. |
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| 18 | 18 | | H |
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| 19 | 19 | | YDE-SMITH, and Mr. VANCE) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 20 | 20 | | read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and |
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| 21 | 21 | | Governmental Affairs |
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| 22 | 22 | | A BILL |
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| 23 | 23 | | To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, |
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| 24 | 24 | | to require reporting on certain census statistics, and |
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| 25 | 25 | | to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based |
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| 26 | 26 | | on United States citizens instead of all persons. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Equal Representation 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Act’’. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | •S 3659 IS |
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| 35 | 35 | | SEC. 2. CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON DECENNIAL CENSUS. 1 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (a) I |
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| 37 | 37 | | NGENERAL.—Section 141 of title 13, United 2 |
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| 38 | 38 | | States Code, is amended— 3 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-4 |
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| 40 | 40 | | section (h); and 5 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-6 |
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| 42 | 42 | | lowing: 7 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(g)(1) In conducting the 2030 decennial census and 8 |
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| 44 | 44 | | each decennial census thereafter, the Secretary shall in-9 |
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| 45 | 45 | | clude in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used 10 |
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| 46 | 46 | | for the purpose of determining the total population by 11 |
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| 47 | 47 | | States a checkbox or other similar option for the respond-12 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ent to indicate, for the respondent and for each of the 13 |
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| 49 | 49 | | members of the household of the respondent, whether that 14 |
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| 50 | 50 | | individual is— 15 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; 16 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(B) a national of the United States but not a 17 |
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| 53 | 53 | | citizen of the United States; 18 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ‘‘(C) an alien lawfully residing in the United 19 |
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| 55 | 55 | | States; or 20 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ‘‘(D) an alien unlawfully residing in the United 21 |
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| 57 | 57 | | States. 22 |
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| 58 | 58 | | ‘‘(2) Not later than 120 days after completion of a 23 |
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| 59 | 59 | | decennial census of the population under subsection (a), 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | the Secretary shall make publicly available the number of 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | persons per State, disaggregated by each of the 4 cat-26 |
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| 64 | 64 | | •S 3659 IS |
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| 65 | 65 | | egories described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | paragraph (1), as tabulated in accordance with this sec-2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | tion.’’. 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | SEC. 3. EXCLUSION OF NONCITIZENS FROM NUMBER OF 4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | PERSONS USED TO DETERMINE APPORTION-5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | MENT OF REPRESENTATIVES AND NUMBER 6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | OF ELECTORAL VOTES. 7 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (a) E |
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| 73 | 73 | | XCLUSION.—Section 22(a) of the Act entitled 8 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decen-9 |
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| 75 | 75 | | nial censuses and to provide for an apportionment of Rep-10 |
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| 76 | 76 | | resentatives in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 11 |
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| 77 | 77 | | U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by inserting after ‘‘not taxed’’ 12 |
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| 78 | 78 | | the following: ‘‘and individuals who are not citizens of the 13 |
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| 79 | 79 | | United States’’. 14 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (b) E |
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| 81 | 81 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 15 |
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| 82 | 82 | | subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the apportion-16 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ment of Representatives carried out pursuant to the de-17 |
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| 84 | 84 | | cennial census conducted during 2030 and any succeeding 18 |
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| 85 | 85 | | decennial census. 19 |
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| 86 | 86 | | SEC. 4. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. 20 |
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| 87 | 87 | | If any provision of this Act or amendment made by 21 |
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| 88 | 88 | | this Act, or the application thereof to any person or cir-22 |
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| 89 | 89 | | cumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder 23 |
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| 90 | 90 | | of the provisions of this Act and amendments made by 24 |
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| 91 | 91 | | this Act, and the application of the provision or amend-25 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ment to any other person or circumstance, shall not be 1 |
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| 96 | 96 | | affected. 2 |
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