COUNT Act

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Introduced 2025-09-04Topic: immigration · elections democracy · technology privacy

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This bill directs every federal agency to give the Department of Commerce as much help as the law allows in counting the number of citizens, noncitizens, and people in the country illegally, including access to agency records. It names specific records to be shared, such as immigration, passport, Social Security, and Medicaid files. The Census Bureau would set up an interagency working group aiming to establish citizenship status for the entire population, and the Secretary of Commerce would start the process of adding a citizenship question to the 2030 census and expand the American Community Survey. Starting six months after the bill becomes law, the Census Bureau could no longer use its differential privacy process and would have to issue public guidance on how individual responses will be kept private.

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Action history

Date	Chamber	Action	Status effect
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.	refer
2025-09-04		Introduced in House	introduce
2025-09-04		Introduced in House	introduce

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