US Congress Senate Bill 677 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on March 30 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-30 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Pending: Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs 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 U.S. citizens temporarily living abroad on the census date are fully and accurately counted and properly attributed to the last state in which they were domiciled before leaving the United 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 if such records satisfy the Secretary's criteria, (2) under which an international "Be Counted" form may be completed at a U.S. embassy by U.S. citizens residing overseas, and (3) under which voter registration rolls may be used to establish usual residence by confirming the state in which U.S. citizens living abroad usually reside.

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

Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-30	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB868 (Related) 2011-03-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/677/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s677/BILLS-112s677is.pdf