[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3920 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3920

To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as 
the Paperwork Reduction Act, to require that collections of information 
  that ask a respondent to specify a racial classification or ethnic 
 classification from among a list of classifications shall provide an 
       opportunity for the respondent to specify, respectively, 
                  ``multiracial'' or ``multiethnic''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 1996

  Mr. Petri introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as 
the Paperwork Reduction Act, to require that collections of information 
  that ask a respondent to specify a racial classification or ethnic 
 classification from among a list of classifications shall provide an 
       opportunity for the respondent to specify, respectively, 
                  ``multiracial'' or ``multiethnic''.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY TO SPECIFY 
              ``MULTIRACIAL'' OR ``MULTIETHNIC'', RESPECTIVELY, AS 
              RACIAL OR ETHNIC CLASSIFICATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 3507 of title 44, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) The Director may not approve a collection of information that 
would request or direct a respondent to specify a racial classification 
from among a list of racial classifications, or an ethnic 
classification from among a list of ethnic classifications, the 
approval of such a collection of information by the Director shall not 
be inferred, and an agency shall not sponsor or conduct such a 
collection of information, unless the list provides an opportunity for 
the respondent to specify `multiracial', in the case of a list of 
racial classifications, or `multiethnic', in the case of a list of 
ethnic classifications.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect January 1, 1997.
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