[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 24, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S1584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4778. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory 
Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EQUAL REPRESENTATION ACT.

       (a) Citizenship Status on Decennial Census.--Section 141 of 
     title 13, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
       ``(g)(1) In conducting the 2030 decennial census and each 
     decennial census thereafter, the Secretary 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 for the respondent to 
     indicate, for the respondent and for each of the members of 
     the household of the respondent, whether that individual is a 
     citizen of the United States.
       ``(2) Not later than 120 days after completion of a 
     decennial census of the population under subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall make publicly available the number of 
     individuals per State, disaggregated by citizens of the 
     United States and noncitizens, as tabulated in accordance 
     with this section.''.
       (b) Exclusion of Noncitizens From Number of Persons Used to 
     Determine Apportionment of Representatives and Number of 
     Electoral Votes.--
       (1) Exclusion.--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)), is 
     amended by inserting after ``not taxed'' the following: ``and 
     individuals who are not citizens of the United States''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
     shall apply with respect to the apportionment of 
     Representatives carried out pursuant to the decennial census 
     conducted during 2030 and any succeeding decennial census.
       (c) Severability Clause.--If any provision of this section 
     or amendment made by this section, or the application thereof 
     to any person or circumstance, is held to be 
     unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of this 
     section and amendments made by this section, and the 
     application of the provision or amendment to any other person 
     or circumstance, shall not be affected.

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