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Equal Representation Act of 2025

Introduced: January 3, 2025 Introduced by: Edwards, Chuck Republican · North Carolina See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Apr 21, 2026

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 536.

Apr 21, 2026

Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. H. Rept. 119-619.

Dec 2, 2025

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 19.

Dec 2, 2025

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

Jan 13, 2025

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E21)

Jan 3, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Jan 3, 2025

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now April 21, 2026

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 536.

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