The COUNT Act would direct federal agencies to help the Department of Commerce determine how many people in the United States are citizens, noncitizens, and people the bill describes as illegal aliens. It names records from agencies including Homeland Security, State, Social Security, and Health and Human Services. The bill would also start a process to add a citizenship question to the 2030 census and consider collecting citizenship data in other Census Bureau surveys. Six months after enactment, the Census Bureau could no longer use differential privacy and would have to explain publicly how it would protect individual responses without that process.
If enacted, the bill could change what citizenship information the Census Bureau asks for and how it gathers that information. It would also change how the Bureau protects individual responses. The bill does not describe specific effects on individuals or explain the replacement privacy protections.
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The bill states that more complete data on citizens and noncitizens would help policymakers understand immigration and evaluate immigration laws and proposals.
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