H.R. 868 · 112th Congress
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain…
Full title
To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.
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Requires the Secretary of Commerce, beginning with the 2020 decennial census of population, to take measures in tabulating total population by state for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress to ensure that all Americans residing abroad on the census date are fully and accurately counted and properly attributed to their respective states.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 2, 2011
Requires the Secretary of Commerce, beginning with the 2020 decennial census of population, to take measures in tabulating total population by state for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress to ensure that all Americans residing abroad on the census date are fully and accurately counted and properly attributed to their respective states.
Requires such measures to include methods: (1) by which administrative records of a nongovernmental organization may be used to enumerate organization members residing overseas as of the census date if such records satisfy the Secretary's criteria, and (2) under which an international "Be Counted" form may be completed at a U.S. embassy by Americans residing overseas.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.
Latest action (Mar 18, 2011): Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 2, 2011
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.