I 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7167 
To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting 
on certain census statistics, to modify apportionment of Representatives 
to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons, to prohibit 
States from carrying out more than one Congressional redistricting after 
a decennial census and apportionment, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2026 
Mr. BARRETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, 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 require a citizenship question on the decennial census, 
to require reporting on certain census statistics, to mod-
ify apportionment of Representatives to be based on 
United States citizens instead of all persons, to prohibit 
States from carrying out more than one Congressional 
redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Make It Count Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CITIZENSHIP STATUS ON DECENNIAL CENSUS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 141 of title 13, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (h); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g)(1) In conducting the 2030 decennial census and 
each decennial census thereafter, the Secretary shall in-
clude in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used 
for the purpose of determining the total population by 
States a checkbox or other similar option for the respond-
ent to indicate, for the respondent and for each of the 
members of the household of the respondent, whether that 
individual is— 
‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; 
‘‘(B) a national of the United States but 
not a citizen of the United States; 
‘‘(C) an alien lawfully residing in the 
United States; or 
‘‘(D) an alien unlawfully residing in the 
United States. 
‘‘(2) Not later than 120 days after completion of a 
decennial census of the population under subsection (a), 
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the Secretary shall make publicly available the number of 
persons per State, disaggregated by each of the 4 cat-
egories described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of 
paragraph (1), as tabulated in accordance with this sec-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 3. EXCLUSION OF NONCITIZENS FROM NUMBER OF 
PERSONS USED TO DETERMINE APPORTION-
MENT OF REPRESENTATIVES AND NUMBER 
OF ELECTORAL VOTES. 
(a) EXCLUSION.—Section 22(a) of the Act entitled 
‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decen-
nial censuses and to provide for an apportionment of Rep-
resentatives in Congress’’, approved June 18, 1929 (2 
U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by inserting after ‘‘not taxed’’ 
the following: ‘‘and individuals who are not citizens of the 
United States’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the apportion-
ment of Representatives carried out pursuant to the de-
cennial census conducted during 2030 and any succeeding 
decennial census. 
SEC. 4. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER 
AN APPORTIONMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the 
relief of Doctor Ricardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for 
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congressional redistricting’’, approved December 14, 1967 
(2 U.S.C. 2c), is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘A State which has been redistricted in the man-
ner provided by law after an apportionment under section 
22(a) of the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the fif-
teenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide 
for an apportionment of Representatives in Congress’, ap-
proved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redis-
tricted again until after the next apportionment of Rep-
resentatives under such section, unless a court requires 
the State to conduct such subsequent redistricting to com-
ply with the Constitution or to enforce the Voting Rights 
Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq.).’’. 
(b) NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND 
LOCAL OFFICE.—Nothing in this section or in any amend-
ment made by this section may be construed to affect the 
manner in which a State carries out elections for State 
or local office, including the process by which a State es-
tablishes the districts used in such elections. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amend-
ment made by this section shall apply with respect to any 
Congressional redistricting which occurs after the Novem-
ber 2024 election. 
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SEC. 5. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. 
If any provision of this Act or amendment made by 
this Act, or the application thereof to any person or cir-
cumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder 
of the provisions of this Act and amendments made by 
this Act, and the application of the provision or amend-
ment to any other person or circumstance, shall not be 
affected. 
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