The bill would change how the population is counted for congressional apportionment. It would exclude noncitizens from the population used to assign House seats. The bill would also require a revised apportionment before certain elections and would require adding a citizenship question to all future decennial censuses. The document provided is a House bill referred to the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the date shown.
If the bill becomes law, states and the Census Bureau would need to use a population count that excludes noncitizens when deciding how many House seats each state gets. Future decennial census questionnaires would include a citizenship question. The provided text does not say which specific elections would trigger a revised apportionment or how those changes would be carried out.
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Sponsors of the bill are listed in the provided material. Sponsors include Representatives Andrew Clyde, Barry Moore, Mike Collins, Wesley Hunt, Anna Paulina Luna, Lauren Boebert, and many others as named in the bill metadata. No publicly available information on their stated arguments or detailed reasons is included in the provided text.
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