[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1260 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1260

  To provide funds for the planning of a special census of Americans 
                            residing abroad.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2001

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide funds for the planning of a special census of Americans 
                            residing abroad.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) an estimated 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 Americans live and 
        work overseas while continuing to vote and pay taxes in the 
        United States;
            (2) Americans residing abroad help increase exports of 
        American goods because they traditionally buy American, sell 
        American, and create business opportunities for American 
        companies and workers, thereby strengthening the United States 
        economy, creating jobs in the United States, and extending 
        United States influence around the globe;
            (3) Americans residing abroad play a key role in advancing 
        this Nation's interests by serving as economic, political, and 
        cultural ``ambassadors'' of the United States; and
            (4) the major business, civic, and community organizations 
        representing Americans and companies of the United States 
        abroad support the counting of all Americans residing abroad by 
        the Bureau of the Census, and are prepared to assist the Bureau 
        of the Census in this task.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the Bureau of the Census should carry out a special 
        census of all Americans residing abroad in 2004;
            (2) the Bureau should, after completing that special 
        census, review the means by which Americans residing abroad may 
        be included in the 2010 decennial census;
            (3) the Bureau should take appropriate measures to provide 
        for the inclusion of Americans residing abroad in the 2010 
        decennial census and decennial censuses thereafter; and
            (4) in order to ensure that the measures specified in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection can be completed in 
        timely fashion, the Bureau should begin planning as soon as 
        possible for the special census described in paragraph (1).

SEC. 2. FUNDING TO BEGIN PLANNING FOR A SPECIAL CENSUS OF AMERICANS 
              RESIDING ABROAD.

    For necessary expenses in connection with the planning of a special 
census of Americans residing abroad (as described in section 1(b)(1)), 
there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, to remain available 
until expended.
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