Title: Every Person Counts Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Every Person Counts Act
This bill modifies provisions regarding population and other census information to: (1) require that there be a tabulation of the total number of persons in each state, and (2) prohibit the Bureau of the Census from including any question or otherwise eliciting any information regarding U.S citizenship or immigration status.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2580 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2580

    To amend title 13, United States Code, to make clear that each 
decennial census, as required for the apportionment of Representatives 
 in Congress among the several States, shall tabulate the total number 
of persons in each State, and to provide that no information regarding 
United States citizenship or immigration status may be elicited in any 
                              such census.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 20, 2018

  Mr. Menendez (for himself, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Booker, Mr. Bennet, Mr. 
  Blumenthal, Mr. Coons, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, 
 Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Harris, Mr. Markey, Mrs. Murray, and Ms. Smith) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 13, United States Code, to make clear that each 
decennial census, as required for the apportionment of Representatives 
 in Congress among the several States, shall tabulate the total number 
of persons in each State, and to provide that no information regarding 
United States citizenship or immigration status may be elicited in any 
                              such 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 ``Every Person Counts Act''.

SEC. 2. CENSUS DATA COLLECTION.

    (a) Requirement.--Section 141(b) of title 13, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``United States'' and inserting the following: 
``United States, and shall tabulate the total number of persons in each 
State''.
    (b) Prohibition.--Section 141(a) of title 13, United States Code, 
is amended in the second sentence by striking ``as necessary'' and 
inserting the following: ``as necessary, except that the Secretary may 
not include any question or otherwise elicit any information regarding 
United States citizenship or immigration status''.
    (c) Rules of Construction.--Nothing in subsection (a) or (b) shall 
be construed to--
            (1) permit or require the exclusion from any decennial 
        census of population (as defined in section 141(g) of title 13, 
        United States Code) of--
                    (A) any person on the basis of age;
                    (B) personnel in the Armed Forces (and their 
                dependents) serving abroad;
                    (C) Federal employees (and their dependents) 
                stationed abroad; or
                    (D) any other persons outside of the United States 
                (in addition to persons described in subparagraph (B) 
                or (C)) who can be traced to the State of their usual 
                place of residence, as determined by the Secretary of 
                Commerce; or
            (2) affect the survey conducted by the Secretary of 
        Commerce that is commonly referred to as the ``American 
        Community Survey''.
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