[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2068 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2068

To prohibit the Bureau of the Census from including citizenship data in 
       the legislative redistricting data prepared by the Bureau.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 10, 2019

  Mr. Booker 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 prohibit the Bureau of the Census from including citizenship data in 
       the legislative redistricting data prepared by the Bureau.

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

SECTION 1. EXCLUDING CITIZENSHIP DATA FROM PUBLIC LAW 94-171 
              REDISTRICTING DATA.

    Section 141(c) of title 13, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``The Secretary may not include any 
information regarding United States citizenship in a tabulation of 
population reported or transmitted under the preceding sentence.''.
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