Make It Count Act

This bill would require the 2030 census and later censuses to ask whether each person in a household is a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, a lawfully residing noncitizen, or an unlawfully residing noncitizen. Within 120 days after each census, the Commerce Secretary would have to publish the number of people in each state in each of those four groups. Starting with the 2030 census, people who are not U.S. citizens would be left out of the population counts used to divide House seats and electoral votes among the states. The bill would also bar a state that has redrawn its congressional districts after an apportionment from redrawing them again until the next apportionment, unless a court requires it to follow the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act; this limit would apply to redistricting after the November 2024 election.

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Sponsors

• Tom Barrett Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors