[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 619 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 619

         To prevent congressional reapportionment distortions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 15, 2007

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

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                                 A BILL


 
         To prevent congressional reapportionment distortions.

    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 ``Fair and Accurate Representation Act 
of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) in recent years, millions of aliens have entered the 
        United States in violation of immigration laws and are now 
        residing illegally in the United States and are subject to 
        deportation;
            (2) the established policy of the Bureau of the Census is 
        to make a concerted effort to count the foreign-born population 
        within the United States without making a separate computation 
        for illegal aliens; and
            (3) by including the millions of illegal aliens in the 
        reapportionment base for the House of Representatives, many 
        States will lose congressional representation which such States 
        would not have otherwise lost, thereby violating the 
        constitutional principle of ``one man, one vote''.

SEC. 3. PREVENTION OF CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT DISTORTIONS.

    (a) Adjustments To Prevent Distortions.--Section 141 of title 13, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) The Secretary shall make such adjustments in total population 
figures as may be necessary, using such methods and procedures as the 
Secretary determines feasible and appropriate, in order that aliens who 
are in the United States in violation of the immigration laws of the 
United States are not counted in tabulating population under subsection 
(b) for the purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress 
among the several States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed 
to supersede section 195 of this title.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 22(a) of the Act entitled ``An 
Act To provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and 
to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress'', of June 
18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking ``as ascertained 
under the seventeenth and each subsequent decennial census of the 
population'' and inserting ``as ascertained and reported under section 
141 of title 13, United States Code, for each decennial census of 
population''.
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