[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 683 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 683

 To facilitate the recruitment of temporary employees to assist in the 
          conduct of the 2000 decennial census of population.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 1999

Mrs. Meek of Florida (for herself and Mr. Miller of Florida) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Government 
                                 Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To facilitate the recruitment of temporary employees to assist in the 
          conduct of the 2000 decennial census 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 ``Decennial Census Improvement Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the Constitution requires that the number of persons in 
        the Nation be enumerated every 10 years in order to permit the 
        apportionment of Representatives among the several States;
            (2) information collected through a decennial census is 
        also used to determine--
                    (A) the boundaries of congressional districts 
                within States;
                    (B) the boundaries of the districts for the 
                legislature of each State and the boundaries of other 
                political subdivisions within the States; and
                    (C) the allocation of billions of dollars of 
                Federal and State funds;
            (3) the Constitution requires that those enumerations be 
        made in such manner as the Congress ``shall by law direct'';
            (4) in the 1990 decennial census, the Bureau of the Census 
        used a combination of mail questionnaires and personal 
        interviews, involving more than 350,000 enumerators, to collect 
        the census data; and
            (5) in 1993, the Bureau concluded that legislation 
        providing that pay for temporary census enumerators in the 2000 
        decennial census not be used to reduce benefits under Federal 
        assistance programs would make it easier for the Bureau to hire 
        neighborhood people as temporary census enumerators in low-
        income neighborhoods.

SEC. 3. MEASURES TO FACILITATE THE RECRUITMENT OF TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES.

    (a) Purposes for Which Compensation Shall Not Be Taken Into 
Account.--Section 23 of title 13, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Compensation for services performed by an individual 
appointed by the Secretary to a temporary position for purposes 
relating to the 2000 decennial census (if the position is so designated 
by the Secretary, in writing, at the time of such individual's 
appointment) shall not be taken into account for purposes of 
determining either the eligibility of any individual for or the amount 
of benefits payable to an individual under any Federal, State, or local 
program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds.''.
    (b) Exemption From Provisions Relating to Reemployed Annuitants and 
Former Members of the Uniformed Services.--Public Law 101-86 (13 U.S.C. 
23 note) is amended--
            (1) in section 1(b) and the long title by striking ``the 
        1990 decennial census'' and inserting ``the 2000 decennial 
        census''; and
            (2) in section 4 by striking ``December 31, 1990.'' and 
        inserting ``December 31, 2000.''.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``census'' means a census of population within 
        the meaning of section 141(g) of title 13, United States Code; 
        and
            (2) the term ``Bureau'' means the Bureau of the Census.
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