2020 Census IDEA Act
Official title: To amend title 13, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Commerce to provide advance notice to Congress before changing any questions on the decennial census, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
2020 Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act or the 2020 Census IDEA Act
This bill prohibits the Department of Commerce, in the 2020 decennial census and each decennial census thereafter, from (1) implementing any major operational design feature that has not been researched, studied, and tested for at least three years before the date on which the applicable census occurs; or (2) including on the questionnaire for the census any subject, type of information, or question that was not submitted to Congress.
The Government Accountability Office must certify to Congress that the subjects, types of information, and questions to be included in a decennial census have been adequately researched, studied, and tested to the same degree as in previous decennial censuses.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 732: 2020 Census IDEA Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-732/
"H.R. 732: 2020 Census IDEA Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-HR-732/.
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