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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5156 
To direct the Department of Commerce and Federal agencies to collect 
information on citizenship status of individuals residing in the United 
States, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 
Mr. PFLUGER (for himself, Mr. EDWARDS, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. COLLINS, Ms. 
VAN DUYNE, and Mr. DUNN of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Se-
curity, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To direct the Department of Commerce and Federal agencies 
to collect information on citizenship status of individuals 
residing in the United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Citizen Only Updated 
National Tally Act’’ or the ‘‘COUNT Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. POLICY. 
It is the policy of the United States to develop com-
plete and accurate data on the number of citizens, nonciti-
zens, and illegal aliens in the country. Such data is nec-
essary to understand the effects of immigration on the 
country, and to inform policymakers in setting and evalu-
ating immigration policies and laws, including evaluating 
proposals to address the current crisis in illegal immigra-
tion. 
SEC. 3. FEDERAL AGENCY ASSISTANCE TO THE DEPART-
MENT OF COMMERCE AND MAXIMIZING CITI-
ZENSHIP DATA. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Each Federal agency shall 
promptly provide the Department of Commerce the max-
imum assistance permissible in determining the number 
of citizens, noncitizens, and illegal aliens in the United 
States, including by providing any access that the Depart-
ment may request to administrative records that may be 
useful in accomplishing such objective. 
(b) SPECIFIC RECORDS.—In addition to the require-
ments of subsection (a), the following Federal agencies 
shall examine relevant legal authorities and, to the max-
imum extent consistent with law, provide access to the De-
partment of Commerce to the following records: 
(1) Department of Homeland Security, United 
States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Na-
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tional-level file of Lawful Permanent Residents, Nat-
uralizations. 
(2) Department of Homeland Security, Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement; F1 and M1 Non-
immigrant Visas. 
(3) Department of Homeland Security; Na-
tional-level file of Customs and Border Arrival/De-
parture transaction data. 
(4) Department of Homeland Security and De-
partment of State, Worldwide Refugee and Asylum 
Processing System; Refugee and Asylum visas. 
(5) Department of State; National-level pass-
port application data. 
(6) Social Security Administration; Master Ben-
eficiary Records. 
(7) Department of Health and Human Services; 
CMS Medicaid and CHIP Information System. 
(c) INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP.—The Director 
of the Bureau of the Census shall establish an interagency 
working group to coordinate efforts, consistent with law, 
to maximize the availability of administrative records in 
connection with the census, with the goal of obtaining ad-
ministrative records that can help establish citizenship sta-
tus for 100 percent of the population. The Director shall 
chair the working group, and the head of each agency shall 
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