[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1083 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1083

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2009

Mr. Schumer (for himself and Mrs. Gillibrand) 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 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Caribbean Count Act''.

SEC. 2. 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 Carribean extraction or 
descent.
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