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                                                  Union Calendar No. 57
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 683

                          [Report No. 106-104]

 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

                             April 26, 1999

   Additional sponsors: Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Clyburn, Mrs. 
 Millender-McDonald, Ms. Norton, Mr. Goss, Mrs. Morella, Mrs. Jones of 
  Ohio, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. Shows, Mr. Ford, 
 Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Dixon, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Jackson-Lee of 
Texas, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Meeks of New 
                          York, and Mr. Filner

                             April 26, 1999

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           February 10, 1999]

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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.--(1) Section 23 of title 13, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) As used in this subsection, the term `temporary census 
position' shall mean a temporary position within the Bureau, 
established for purposes relating to the 2000 census (as determined 
under regulations which the Secretary shall prescribe).
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the earning or 
receipt by an individual of compensation for service performed by such 
individual in a temporary census position shall not have the effect of 
causing--
            ``(A) such individual or any other individual to become 
        ineligible for any benefits described in paragraph (3)(A); or
            ``(B) a reduction in the amount of any benefits described 
        in paragraph (3)(A) for which such individual or any other 
        individual would otherwise be eligible.
    ``(3) This subsection--
            ``(A) shall apply with respect to benefits provided under 
        any Federal program or under any State or local program 
        financed in whole or in part with Federal funds;
            ``(B) shall apply only with respect to compensation for 
        service performed during calendar year 2000; and
            ``(C) shall not apply if the individual performing the 
        service involved was first appointed to a temporary census 
        position (whether such individual's then current position or a 
        previous one) before January 1, 2000.''.
    (2) Nothing in the amendment made by paragraph (1) shall be 
considered to apply with respect to Public Law 101-86 (as amended by 
subsection (b)) or the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
    (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.
                                     





                                                  Union Calendar No. 57

106th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 683

                          [Report No. 106-104]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 26, 1999

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed