{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-7109","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 7109","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Equal Representation Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons."},{"type":"Short Title(s) from PCS (Placed on Senate Calendar) bill text","title":"Equal Representation Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Equal Representation Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Equal Representation Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Equal Representation Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Equal Representation Act"},{"type":"Official Titles as Amended by House","title":"To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all individuals"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2024-01-29","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-05-08","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h193","question":"On Passage","title":"Equal Representation Act","result":"Passed","yea":206,"nay":202,"present":0,"not_voting":22,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll193.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 386.","date":"2024-05-14"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2024-05-08","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Equal Representation Act","result":"Failed","yea":203,"nay":207,"present":0,"not_voting":20,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll192.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-05-08","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Equal Representation Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a U.S. citizen."},{"k":"p","t":"The Department of Commerce must make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) exclude noncitizens."}],"words":82},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires a citizenship question on the decennial census, requires publication of citizen and noncitizen counts by State, and excludes individuals who are not citizens of the United States from the population count used to apportion Representatives.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#H24B44ED0F39040EAAFDB491A039D926A"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#HF641CCA46E6A465A8682D0FADB9AC39F"}]},"core_areas":["Citizenship question on the decennial census","Publication of citizen and noncitizen counts by State","Population count used to apportion Representatives in Congress"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary, in the 2030 decennial census and each one after it, to include on any questionnaire used to determine total population by States a checkbox or similar option to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a United States citizen.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#H24B44ED0F39040EAAFDB491A039D926A"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to make publicly available, not later than 120 days after a decennial census is completed, the number of individuals per State, separated into citizens of the United States and noncitizens.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#H24B44ED0F39040EAAFDB491A039D926A"}},{"text":"Amends the 1929 Act on apportionment of Representatives (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)) so that individuals who are not citizens of the United States are excluded from the number of persons counted, in addition to Indians not taxed.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#HF641CCA46E6A465A8682D0FADB9AC39F"}},{"text":"Applies the apportionment change to the apportionment carried out under the 2030 decennial census and any later decennial census.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#HF641CCA46E6A465A8682D0FADB9AC39F"}},{"text":"States that if any provision of the Act or its amendments is held unconstitutional, the remaining provisions and their other applications are not affected.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh#H6887FED00A2E427E8DB67637318953F7"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-08","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-7109.png","v":"a8e1f22346af","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 7109, 118th Congress: Equal Representation Act. House: 206 Yea, 202 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 8 May 2024."}}