{"format":1,"id":"117-hr-8326","congress":117,"number":"H.R. 8326","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend title 13, United States Code, to improve the operations of the Bureau of the Census, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend title 13, United States Code, to improve the operations of the Bureau of the Census, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2022-07-11","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2022-09-15","vote":{"id":"117-2022-h435","question":"On Passage","title":"Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act","result":"Passed","yea":220,"nay":208,"present":0,"not_voting":4,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2022/roll435.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","date":"2022-09-19"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[{"number":"H.Amdt. 315","sponsor":"Rep. 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the status of all research, testing, and operations that are part of the bureau's comprehensive plan for the decennial census."},{"k":"p","t":"The bureau must submit to Congress a certification stating that any question that has not appeared on the previous two decennial censuses has been researched, studied, and tested according to established statistical policies and procedures."},{"k":"p","t":"The Government Accountability Office must review such certification and report to Congress on whether the questions to be included have been researched, studied, and tested according to such policies and procedures."},{"k":"p","t":"The bureau, by January 1, 2026, and every 10 years thereafter, must transmit to Congress a lifecycle cost estimate for the decennial census of population first occurring after the date of transmittal."},{"k":"p","t":"The bureau must submit to Congress a report on local-level data and local field operations."}],"words":241},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends title 13, United States Code, to change the leadership, advisory committees and budget reporting of the Bureau of the Census, and to add content, reporting and cost-estimate requirements for the decennial census.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#H984EF69CA7A2489F9D682FB28FA545D6"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#H237EDD0F92FC4BAB807D6A5D2EA9FEEF"},{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#HB4A8557100A544F89ED725A44D6BEE29"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#HAE08F716E4FD48509F06C29581E4C552"}]},"core_areas":["Census Bureau leadership and career staffing","Census Bureau advisory committees","Census Bureau five-year budget estimates","Decennial census content limits and reports to Congress","Decennial census lifecycle cost estimates","Report 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days of enactment on the Bureau's consultation with local jurisdictions and partners, its progress on Government Accountability Office recommendations, and additional resources needed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#HAE08F716E4FD48509F06C29581E4C552"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"selective_carve_out","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh#H984EF69CA7A2489F9D682FB28FA545D6"},"heading":"Modification of certain Bureau of the Census authorities","effect":"Requires every Bureau position to be a career civil service position, except the Director and not more than three other positions.","amount":null,"quote":"Each position within the Bureau shall be a career position within the civil service, except for the position of the Director and not more than three other positions."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2022-09-15","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-15","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8326/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/117-hr-8326.png","v":"11933b5f48d4","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 8326, 117th Congress: Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act. House: 220 Yea, 208 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 15 Sep 2022."}}