A bill to nullify the effect of the recent executive order that requires Federal agencies to share citizenship data.

Bill: 116-s-2233
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
Introduced: 2019-07-23
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Census and government statistics

Citizenship and naturalization

Congressional oversight

Government information and archives

Immigration

Immigration status and procedures

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-07-23
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill nullifies a July 11, 2019, executive order (1) directing all federal agencies to share citizenship information with the Department of Commerce, (2) establishing an interagency working group to improve Commerce's access to citizenship-related records in other agencies, and (3) directing Commerce to strengthen efforts to obtain citizenship-related records from states.</p> </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2233 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 23, 2019 Mr. Schatz (for himself, Mr. Durbin , Mrs. Murray , Mrs. Feinstein , Mr. Reed , Mr. Brown , Mr. Booker , Mr. Blumenthal , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Kaine , Mr. Bennet , Ms. Klobuchar , Ms. Hirono , and Ms. Duckworth ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs A BILL To nullify the effect of the recent executive order that requires Federal agencies to share citizenship data.

1. Recession (a) In general The provisions of Executive Order 13880 (84 Fed. Reg. 33821; July 11, 2019), entitled Collecting Information About Citizenship Status in Connection With the Decennial Census , are rescinded and shall have no force or effect. (b) Effective date This Act shall take effect as if enacted on July 11, 2019.