[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 307 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 307

    To require that, in the administration of any benefits program 
  established by or under Federal law which requires the use of data 
obtained in the most recent decennial census, the 1990 adjusted census 
         data be considered the official data for such census.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 3 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

   Mr. Mack introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that, in the administration of any benefits program 
  established by or under Federal law which requires the use of data 
obtained in the most recent decennial census, the 1990 adjusted census 
         data be considered the official data for such census.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENTS THAT ADJUSTED DATA BE USED.

    (a) Definition.--For the purpose of this section the term 
``adjusted census data'' means data from the 1990 decennial census of 
the population, as adjusted by the Bureau of the Census to take into 
account the findings of the Selected Post-Enumeration Survey, dated 
June 13, 1991.
    (b) Requirement.--For the purpose of section 141(e) of title 13, 
United States Code, the 1990 adjusted census data shall be considered 
the most recent data available for the 1990 decennial census of 
population.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall become effective on the first day of the first 
fiscal year beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act.

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