[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2071 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2071

   To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any 
 decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be 
   included so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or 
                                descent.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 2009

  Ms. Clarke introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any 
 decennial census of population, a checkbox or other similar option be 
   included so that respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or 
                                descent.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT RELATING TO CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES.

    In conducting the 2010 decennial census and every decennial census 
thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include, in any 
questionnaire distributed or otherwise used for the purpose of 
determining the total population by States, a checkbox or other similar 
option by which respondents may indicate Caribbean extraction or 
descent.
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