US Congress House Bill 868 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Secretary of Commerce, beginning with the 2020 decennial census of population, to take measures in tabulating total population by state for purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress to ensure that all Americans residing abroad on the census date are fully and accurately counted and properly attributed to their respective states. Requires such measures to include methods: (1) by which administrative records of a nongovernmental organization may be used to enumerate organization members residing overseas as of the census date if such records satisfy the Secretary's criteria, and (2) under which an international "Be Counted" form may be completed at a U.S. embassy by Americans residing overseas.

To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.

Rep. Rob Bishop [R-UT]

Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
2011-03-02	House	Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

SB677 (Related) 2011-03-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/868/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr868/BILLS-112hr868ih.pdf