2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act
Bill: S.1267 | Sponsor: Sen. Schatz, Brian (D-HI)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act
This bill extends certain deadlines for the 2020 decennial census.
Specifically, the Department of Commerce must (1) complete the tabulation of total population by states, report the tabulation to the President, and make the tabulation public, by May 1, 2021; and (2) complete tabulations of population expeditiously, taking into account the deadlines of each state for legislative apportionment or districting, and report the tabulations by October 1, 2021.

To extend certain deadlines for the 2020 decennial census.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``2020 Census Deadline Extensions 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CENSUS DEADLINE MODIFICATION.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``President'' means the President of the 
        United States; and
            (2) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Commerce.
    (b) Modified Timetables and Rules.--Notwithstanding subsections (b) 
and (c) of section 141 of title 13, United States Code, and subsection 
(a) of section 22 of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for 
apportionment of Representatives in Congress'', approved June 18, 1929 
(2 U.S.C. 2a), the following timetables and rules shall apply to the 
2020 decennial census of population:
            (1) Not later than May 1, 2021, the Secretary shall--
                    (A) complete the tabulation of total population by 
                States required under subsection (a) of such section 
                141;
                    (B) report the tabulation described in subparagraph 
                (A) to the President; and
                    (C) make the tabulation described in subparagraph 
                (A) public.
            (2) Not later than 14 days after receipt of the tabulation 
        described in paragraph (1)(A), the President shall transmit to 
        Congress the statement described in subsection (a) of such 
        section 22.
            (3) Each State shall be entitled, in the 118th Congress and 
        in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a 
        reapportionment under such section 22 or a subsequently enacted 
        statute, to the number of Representatives shown in the 
        statement described in paragraph (2), and no State shall 
        receive less than 1 Member.
            (4) Not later than 15 days after receipt of the statement 
        described in paragraph (2), the Clerk of the House of 
        Representatives shall send to the executive of each State a 
        certificate of the number of Representatives to which the State 
        is entitled under paragraph (3). In the case of a vacancy in 
        the Office of Clerk, or of the absence or inability of the 
        Clerk to discharge that duty, that duty shall devolve upon the 
        Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives.
            (5) The Secretary shall--
                    (A) complete the tabulations of population required 
                under subsection (c) of such section 141 as 
                expeditiously as possible after the deadline described 
                in paragraph (4) of this subsection, taking into 
                account the deadlines of each State for legislative 
                apportionment or districting; and
                    (B) report the tabulations described in 
                subparagraph (A) as required under subsection (c) of 
                such section 141 not later than October 1, 2021.
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