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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7034 

To modify the deadline for completing the 2020 decennial census of population 

and related tabulations, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 27, 2020 

Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. 

RASKIN, Mr. CONNOLLY, and Mr. SARBANES) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and 

in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to 

be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 

concerned 

A BILL 

To modify the deadline for completing the 2020 decennial 

census of population and related tabulations, and for 

other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Fair and Accurate 

5 Census Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CENSUS DEADLINE MODIFICATION. 

2 Notwithstanding the timetables provided in sections 

3 141(b) and (c) of title 13, United States Code, and section 

4 22(a) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fif5 teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide 

6 for an apportionment of Representatives in Congress’’, ap7 proved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), for the 2020 de8 cennial census of the population— 

9 (1) the tabulation of total population by States 

10 required by section 141(a) of such title for the ap11 portionment of Representatives in Congress among 

12 the several States shall be completed and reported 

13 by the Secretary to the President within 13 months 

14 after the decennial census date of April 1, 2020, and 

15 shall be made public by the Secretary no later than 

16 the date on which it is reported to the President; 

17 (2) the President shall transmit to the Congress 

18 a statement showing the whole number of persons in 

19 each State, and the number of Representatives to 

20 which each State would be entitled under an appor21 tionment of the then existing number of Representa22 tives, as required by such section 22(a), and deter23 mined solely as described therein, within 14 days 

24 after receipt of the tabulation reported by the Sec25 retary; and 


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1 (3) the tabulations of populations required by 

2 section 141(c) of such title shall be completed by the 

3 Secretary as expeditiously as possible after the cen4 sus date of April 1, 2020, taking into account each 

5 State’s deadlines for legislative apportionment or 

6 districting, and reported to the Governor of the 

7 State involved and to the officers or public bodies 

8 having responsibility for legislative apportionment or 

9 districting of such State, except that such tabula10 tions of population of each State requesting a tab11 ulation plan, and basic tabulations of population of 

12 each other State, shall be completed, reported, and 

13 transmitted to each respective State within 16 

14 months after the decennial census date of April 1, 

15 2020. 

16 SEC. 3. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR 2020 CENSUS. 

17 On the first day of each month during the period be18 tween the date of enactment of this Act and July 1, 2021, 

19 the Director of the Bureau of the Census shall submit, 

20 to the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House 

21 of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security 

22 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Commit23 tees on Appropriations of the House and the Senate, a 

24 report regarding the 2020 decennial census of population 

25 containing the following information: 


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1 (1) The total number of field staff, sorted by 

2 category, hired by the Bureau compared to the num3 ber of field staff the Bureau estimated was nec4 essary to carry out such census. 

5 (2) Retention rates of such hired field staff. 

6 (3) Average wait time for call center calls and 

7 average wait time for each language provided. 

8 (4) Anticipated schedule of such census oper9 ations. 

10 (5) Total appropriations available for obligation 

11 for such census and a categorized list of total dis12 bursements. 

13 (6) Non-Response Follow-Up completion rates 

14 by geographic location. 

15 (7) Update/Enumerate and Update/Leave com16 pletion rates by geographic location. 

17 (8) Total spending to date on media, advertise18 ments, and partnership specialists, including a geo19 graphic breakdown of such spending. 

20 (9) Post-enumeration schedule and subsequent 

21 data aggregation and delivery progress. 


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1 SEC. 4. PROVIDING BUREAU OF THE CENSUS ACCESS TO 

2 INFORMATION FROM INSTITUTIONS OF HIGH3 ER EDUCATION. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi5 sion of law, including section 444 of the General Edu6 cation Provisions Act (commonly known as the ‘‘Family 

7 Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974’’), an institu8 tion of higher education may, in furtherance of a full and 

9 accurate decennial census of population count, provide to 

10 the Bureau of the Census information requested by the 

11 Bureau for purposes of enumeration for the 2020 decen12 nial census of population. 

13 (b) APPLICATION.— 

14 (1) INFORMATION.—Only information requested 

15 on the official 2020 decennial census of population 

16 form may be provided to the Bureau of the Census 

17 pursuant to this section. No institution of higher 

18 education may provide any information to the Bu19 reau on the immigration or citizenship status of any 

20 individual. 

21 (2) NOTICE REQUIRED.—Before information 

22 can be provided to the Bureau, the institution of 

23 higher education shall give public notice of the cat24 egories of information which it plans to provide and 

25 shall allow 10 days after such notice has been given 

26 for a student to inform the institution that any or 


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1 all of the information designated should not be re2 leased without the student’s prior consent. No insti3 tution of higher education shall provide the Bureau 

4 with the information of any individual who has ob5 jected to the provision of such information. 

6 (3) USE OF INFORMATION.—Information pro7 vided to the Bureau pursuant to this section may 

8 only be used for the purposes of enumeration for the 

9 2020 decennial census of population. 

10 (c) DEFINITION OF INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDU11 CATION.—In this section, the term ‘‘institution of higher 

12 education’’ has the meaning given that term in section 102 

13 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 

14 (d) SUNSET.—The authority provided in this section 

15 shall expire at the conclusion of 2020 census operations. 

16 SEC. 5. LIMITATION. 

17 The Bureau of the Census may not compile, produce, 

18 or publish any data product or tabulation as part of, in 

19 combination with, or in connection with, the 2020 decen20 nial census of population or any such census data pro21 duced pursuant to section 141(c) of title 13, United States 

22 Code, that includes topics specific to the 2020 Census that 

23 were not part of the report submitted pursuant to section 

24 141(f)(1) of title 13, United States Code, on March 28, 


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1 2017, and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test conducted 

2 in Providence County, Rhode Island. 

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