Equal Representation Act
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Official Summary
Equal Representation Act
This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a U.S. citizen.
The Department of Commerce must make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state.
The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) exclude noncitizens.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
S-3659: Equal Representation ActRead twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Senate
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 386.
Senate