[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1127 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1127

   To require that, in the questionnaires used in the taking of any 
 decennial census of population or American Community Survey, standard 
    functional ability questions be included to provide a reliable 
                 indicator of need for long-term care.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2009

 Mr. Martinez 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 or American Community Survey, standard 
    functional ability questions be included to provide a reliable 
                 indicator of need for long-term care.

    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 ``Disability Data Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF STANDARD FUNCTIONAL ABILITY QUESTIONS IN CENSUS 
              QUESTIONNAIRES.

    In conducting the 2010 decennial census and the 2010 American 
Community Survey and every decennial census and American Community 
Survey thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include, in any 
questionnaire distributed or otherwise used, the Katz basic activities 
of daily living scale and the Lawton-Brody instrumental activities of 
daily living scale.
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