S. 2578 · 115th Congress
2020 Census IDEA Act
Key: what the circles and colors mean
Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:
Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.
Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.
Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.
D
SchatzSponsor19 cosponsors · 18 D, 1 I
D
Duckworth
GP
D
Peters
RW
D
Wyden
KG
D
Gillibrand
RB
D
Blumenthal
MH
D
Hassan
AK
D
Klobuchar
TU
D
Udall
TB
D
Baldwin
TS
D
Smith
MB
D
Bennet
RD
D
Durbin
JR
D
Reed
BN
D
Nelson
CC
D
Cortez Masto
TK
D
Kaine
CV
D
Van Hollen
AK
I
King
MW
D
Warner3 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.
2020 Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act or the 2020 Census IDEA Act
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 20, 2018
2020 Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act or the 2020 Census IDEA Act
This bill prohibits the Department of Commerce, in the 2020 decennial census of population and each decennial census thereafter, from: (1) implementing any major operational design that has not been researched, studied, and tested for a period of not less than three years before the date on which the applicable census occurs; or (2) including on the questionnaire for the census any subject, type of information, or question that was not submitted to Congress.
The Government Accountability Office must determine that the subjects, types of information, and questions to be included in a decennial census have been adequately researched, studied, and tested to the same degree as in previous decennial censuses.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: 2020 Census IDEA Act
Also known as: 2020 Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act
Latest action (Mar 20, 2018): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 20, 2018
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.