A bill to include a question to ascertain United States citizenship and immigration status in each questionnaire used for a decennial census of population, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-s-49
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA]
Introduced: 2015-01-07
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics

Citizenship and naturalization

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2015-01-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in each questionnaire used for conducting the decennial census of population a question to ascertain U.S. citizenship and immigration status. </p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 49 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 7, 2015 Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To include a question to ascertain United States citizenship and immigration status in each questionnaire used for a decennial census of population, and for other purposes.

1. Ascertaining citizenship and immigration status in decennial census of population Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following: (g) Notwithstanding section 5 of this title, the Secretary shall include in each questionnaire used for the conduct of a decennial census of population under subsection (a) a question to ascertain United States citizenship and immigration status. .