[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4571 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4571

       To extend certain deadlines for the 2020 decennial census.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2020

 Mr. Schatz (for himself, Ms. Murkowski, and Mr. Sullivan) 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 extend certain deadlines for the 2020 decennial census.

    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 ``2020 Census Deadline Extensions 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CENSUS DEADLINE MODIFICATION.

    Notwithstanding the timetables provided in subsections (b) and (c) 
of section 141 of title 13, United States Code, and 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'', approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), for the 2020 
decennial census of population--
            (1) the tabulation of total population by States required 
        by subsection (a) of such section 141 for the apportionment of 
        Representatives in Congress among the several States shall be--
                    (A) completed and reported by the Secretary of 
                Commerce (referred to in this section as the 
                ``Secretary'') to the President not earlier than 1 year 
                and not later than 13 months after the decennial census 
                date of April 1, 2020; and
                    (B) made public by the Secretary not later than the 
                date on which the tabulation is reported to the 
                President under subparagraph (A);
            (2) the President shall transmit to Congress a statement 
        showing the whole number of persons in each State, and the 
        number of Representatives to which each State would be entitled 
        under an apportionment of the then existing number of 
        Representatives, as required by such section 22(a), and 
        determined solely as described therein, not later than 14 days 
        after receipt of the tabulation reported by the Secretary; and
            (3) the tabulations of population required by subsection 
        (c) of such section 141 shall be completed by the Secretary as 
        expeditiously as possible after the decennial census date of 
        April 1, 2020, taking into account the deadlines of each State 
        for legislative apportionment or districting, and reported to 
        the Governor of the State involved and to the officers or 
        public bodies having responsibility for legislative 
        apportionment or districting of that State, except that the 
        tabulations of population of each State requesting a tabulation 
        plan, and basic tabulations of population of each other State, 
        shall be completed, reported, and transmitted to each 
        respective State not later than 16 months after the decennial 
        census date of April 1, 2020.

SEC. 3. 2020 CENSUS OPERATIONS.

    For the 2020 decennial census of population, the Bureau of the 
Census may not conclude the Nonresponse Followup operation or the Self-
Response operation before October 31, 2020.
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