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Union Calendar No. 57

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 683

[Report No. 106–104]

To facilitate the recruitment of temporary employees to assist in the conduct

of the 2000 decennial census of population.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 10, 1999

Mrs. MEEK of Florida (for herself and Mr. MILLER of Florida) introduced the

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform

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Additional sponsors: Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Mr. CLYBURN, Mrs.

MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GOSS, Mrs. MORELLA, Mrs.

JONES of Ohio, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr.

SHOWS, Mr. FORD, Mrs. CLAYTON, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. DIXON, Ms.

LOFGREN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mrs. THURMAN, Mr. GREEN of

Texas, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. MEEKS of New York, and Mr. FILNER

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Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on February 10, 1999]

A BILL

To facilitate the recruitment of temporary employees to assist

in the conduct of the 2000 decennial census of population.
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decennial Census Im5 provement Act of 1999’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 The Congress finds that—

8 (1) the Constitution requires that the number of

9 persons in the Nation be enumerated every 10 years

10 in order to permit the apportionment of Representa11 tives among the several States;

12 (2) information collected through a decennial

13 census is also used to determine—

14 (A) the boundaries of congressional districts

15 within States;

16 (B) the boundaries of the districts for the

17 legislature of each State and the boundaries of

18 other political subdivisions within the States;

19 and

20 (C) the allocation of billions of dollars of

21 Federal and State funds;

22 (3) the Constitution requires that those enumera23 tions be made in such manner as the Congress ‘‘shall

24 by law direct’’;
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1 (4) in the 1990 decennial census, the Bureau of

2 the Census used a combination of mail questionnaires

3 and personal interviews, involving more than 350,000

4 enumerators, to collect the census data; and

5 (5) in 1993, the Bureau concluded that legisla6 tion providing that pay for temporary census enu7 merators in the 2000 decennial census not be used to

8 reduce benefits under Federal assistance programs

9 would make it easier for the Bureau to hire neighbor10 hood people as temporary census enumerators in low11 income neighborhoods.

12 SEC. 3. MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE RECRUITMENT OF

13 TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES.

14 (a) PURPOSES FOR WHICH COMPENSATION SHALL

15 NOT BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.—(1) Section 23 of title 13,

16 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the

17 following:

18 ‘‘(d)(1) As used in this subsection, the term ‘temporary

19 census position’ shall mean a temporary position within

20 the Bureau, established for purposes relating to the 2000

21 census (as determined under regulations which the Sec22 retary shall prescribe).

23 ‘‘(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the

24 earning or receipt by an individual of compensation for
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1 service performed by such individual in a temporary census

2 position shall not have the effect of causing—

3 ‘‘(A) such individual or any other individual to

4 become ineligible for any benefits described in para5 graph (3)(A); or

6 ‘‘(B) a reduction in the amount of any benefits

7 described in paragraph (3)(A) for which such indi8 vidual or any other individual would otherwise be eli9 gible.

10 ‘‘(3) This subsection—

11 ‘‘(A) shall apply with respect to benefits provided

12 under any Federal program or under any State or

13 local program financed in whole or in part with Fed14 eral funds;

15 ‘‘(B) shall apply only with respect to compensa16 tion for service performed during calendar year 2000;

17 and

18 ‘‘(C) shall not apply if the individual per19 forming the service involved was first appointed to a

20 temporary census position (whether such individual’s

21 then current position or a previous one) before Janu22 ary 1, 2000.’’.

23 (2) Nothing in the amendment made by paragraph (1)

24 shall be considered to apply with respect to Public Law
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1 101–86 (as amended by subsection (b)) or the Internal Rev2 enue Code of 1986.

3 (b) EXEMPTION FROM PROVISIONS RELATING TO RE4 EMPLOYED ANNUITANTS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE

5 UNIFORMED SERVICES.—Public Law 101–86 (13 U.S.C. 23

6 note) is amended—

7 (1) in section 1(b) and the long title by striking

8 ‘‘the 1990 decennial census’’ and inserting ‘‘the 2000

9 decennial census’’; and

10 (2) in section 4 by striking ‘‘December 31,

11 1990.’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2000.’’.

12 SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

13 For purposes of this Act—

14 (1) the term ‘‘census’’ means a census of popu15 lation within the meaning of section 141(g) of title

16 13, United States Code; and

17 (2) the term ‘‘Bureau’’ means the Bureau of the

18 Census.

Union Calendar No. 57

106TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 683

[Report No. 106–104]

A BILL

To facilitate the recruitment of temporary employcensus of population. ees to assist in the conduct of the 2000 decennial

APRIL 26, 1999

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union,