Census Equity Act

Census Equity Act - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that during any decennial census: (1) no member of the armed forces, civilian employee of the Department of Defense, or dependent of such member or employee, is excluded based on such member or employee being assigned to a post outside the United States; and (2) any alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence is not included.

 
HR 2661 IH
101st CONGRESS
1st Session
 H. R. 2661
Relating to decennial censuses of population.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 15, 1989
Mr. RIDGE (for himself, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. BURTON of Indiana,
Mr. WALGREN, Mr. EDWARDS of Oklahoma, Mr. NEAL of North Carolina, Mr. HYDE,
Mr. MURPHY, Mr. BATEMAN, Mr. ERDREICH, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. SLATTERY, Mr. MCDADE,
Mr. SMITH of Mississippi, Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire, Mr. ROBERTS,
Mr. BUNNING, Mr. COUGHLIN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. WELDON, Mr. HANCOCK,
Mr. WALKER, Mr. KOLTER, Mr. DICKINSON, Mr. HILER, and Mr. SCHULZE) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service
A BILL
Relating to decennial censuses of population.
  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
  States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  This Act may be cited as the `Census Equity Act'.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.
  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)(1) Effective beginning with the 1990 decennial census of population,
  in taking any tabulation of total population by States for purposes of
  the apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States,
  the Secretary shall take appropriate measures to ensure that--
  `(A) no member of the armed forces, civilian employee of the Department of
  Defense, or dependent of any such member or employee, is excluded based
  on such member or employee being assigned to a post outside the United
  States; and
  `(B) any alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence is not included.
  `(2) Nothing in this section shall be considered to preclude any decennial
  census data which is obtained by the Secretary other than in accordance
  with paragraph (1) of this subsection from being used for any purpose
  other than the one described in such paragraph.'.