[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1058 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1058

   To promote greater public participation in decennial censuses by 
    providing for the expansion of the educational program commonly 
           referred to as the ``Census in Schools Project''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1999

Mr. Miller of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To promote greater public participation in decennial censuses by 
    providing for the expansion of the educational program commonly 
           referred to as the ``Census in Schools Project''.

    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 in the Schools Promotion 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The program commonly referred to as the ``Census in 
        Schools Project'', under the auspices of the Bureau of the 
        Census, represents an effective way to educate the Nation's 
        youth as to the reasons why a full and complete census is so 
        important to a democratic society.
            (2) Our schools may be the only institution that maintains 
        a continuing relationship with a broad cross-section of this 
        Nation's families with children.
            (3) Educating the children of this Nation as to the 
        importance of the census is an investment that will promote 
        greater levels of public participation, especially in the 
        hardest-to-count communities, not only in the 2000 census, but 
        censuses thereafter.
            (4) The program referred to in paragraph (1), while 
        comprehensive, is one that the Bureau of the Census has 
        indicated it will not be able to implement more broadly without 
        additional funding.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to promote greater public 
participation in decennial censuses by providing for the expansion of 
the program referred to in paragraph (1).

SEC. 3. PROGRAM EXPANSION.

    The Secretary of Commerce shall take appropriate measures to ensure 
that, under the program referred to in section 2(a)(1)--
            (1) a written invitation to participate in such program 
        shall be afforded--
                    (A) to the head of each elementary school and of 
                each secondary school;
                    (B) to each elementary school teacher; and
                    (C) to each secondary school teacher the principal 
                duties of whom involve the teaching of mathematics, 
                geography, or social studies; and
            (2) upon timely acceptance of an invitation described in 
        paragraph (1), the individual involved shall, without charge, 
        be provided with a set of such grade-appropriate teaching 
        guides, student materials, or other information or materials as 
        the Secretary may determine.

SEC. 4. REGULATIONS.

    The Secretary of Commerce may prescribe any regulations necessary 
to carry out this Act.
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