A bill to prohibit the Bureau of the Census from including citizenship data in the legislative redistricting data prepared by the Bureau.

Bill: 116-s-2068
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2019-07-10
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics

Citizenship and naturalization

Congressional districts and representation

Government information and archives
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-10
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Bureau of the Census from including information regarding U.S. citizenship in its legislative redistricting data.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2068 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 10, 2019 Mr. Booker introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To prohibit the Bureau of the Census from including citizenship data in the legislative redistricting data prepared by the Bureau.

1. Excluding citizenship data from Public Law 94–171 redistricting data Section 141(c) of title 13, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary may not include any information regarding United States citizenship in a tabulation of population reported or transmitted under the preceding sentence. .