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H.R. 5359: 2020 Census IDEA Act

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H.R. 5359: 2020 Census IDEA Act

115th Congress · introduced 2018-03-21 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-03-21 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

2020 Census IDEA Act

Plain summary

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 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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Official text

2020 Census IDEA Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-12] · 52 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Grace Meng (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Darren Soto (D-FL), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Rick Larsen (D-WA), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Peter Welch (D-VT), Seth Moulton (D-MA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr5359 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115