H.R.868: To amend title 13, United States Code, to provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of certain overseas Americans in the decennial census.

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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...

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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
March 2, 2011

Introduced in the House by Rob Bishop (R-Utah)

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