Bill SponsorBILLSPONSOR
Bill Sponsor
Politicians
Bills
House Bill 1305
115th Congress(2017-2018)
American Community Survey Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on Mar 2, 2017
Overview
Text
Introduced in House 
Mar 2, 2017
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Introduced in House(Mar 2, 2017)
Mar 2, 2017
Not Scanned for Linkage
About Linkage
Multiple bills can contain the same text. This could be an identical bill in the opposite chamber or a smaller bill with a section embedded in a larger bill.
Bill Sponsor regularly scans bill texts to find sections that are contained in other bill texts. When a matching section is found, the bills containing that section can be viewed by clicking "View Bills" within the bill text section.
Bill Sponsor is currently only finding exact word-for-word section matches. In a future release, partial matches will be included.
Jump To
H. R. 1305 (Introduced-in-House)


115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1305


To make participation in the American Community Survey voluntary, except with respect to certain basic questions, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 2, 2017

Mr. Poe of Texas (for himself, Mr. Massie, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Olson, Mr. Bishop of Michigan, and Ms. Jenkins of Kansas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

A BILL

To make participation in the American Community Survey voluntary, except with respect to certain basic questions, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “American Community Survey Act”.

SEC. 2. Participation in American Community Survey.

(a) Optional questions.—Section 193 of title 13, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “The Secretary shall include, in the instructions for completing any survey authorized under this section, a statement indicating that answering any question other than questions that solicit the information described in section 221(c)(2)(A) is optional.”.

(b) Refusal To participate.—Section 221 of title 13, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in subsection (a), by striking “Whoever, being over eighteen years of age,” and inserting “Except as provided in subsection (c), any person older than 18 years of age who”; and

(2) by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

“(c) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision under this title—

“(A) no person may be compelled to disclose information relative to the person's religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body; and

“(B) except as provided in paragraph (2), no person may be fined or otherwise compelled to answer questions in connection with the survey, conducted by the Secretary of Commerce, which is commonly referred to as the ‘American Community Survey’.

“(2) Paragraph (1)(B)—

“(A) shall not apply to any question that elicits—

“(i) the name of the respondent;

“(ii) contact information for the respondent;

“(iii) the date of the response; or

“(iv) the number of people living or staying at the same address; and

“(B) does not waive any penalty imposed for conduct described in subsection (b).”.