Equal Representation Act of 2025
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… Show full official titleShow less
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.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 536.
Equal Representation Act
This bill requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress after the decennial census indicating the number of persons in each state exclude noncitizens. (This statement is the basis for reapportionment of U.S. Representatives.)
The bill also 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 (1) a U.S. citizen, (2) a U.S. national but not a citizen, (3) a non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) lawfully residing in the United States, or (4) a non-U.S. national unlawfully residing in the United States.
The Department of Commerce must make public the number of persons in each state, disaggregated by each of these four categories.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- Reported in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE U.S.
- LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE U.S.
- FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
- LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Bureau of the Census
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Education, Dept of
- Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS)
- Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
- White House Office
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 151: Equal Representation Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-151/
"H.R. 151: Equal Representation Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-151/.
H.R. 151, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-151/.
[H.R. 151: Equal Representation Act of 2025](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-151/)