From Mark Mather, PRB (April 27)

Two provisions in the House Appropriations subcommittee's FY2027 CJS bill are worth flagging for the Census data community.

1) The new funding bill would bar the Census Bureau from including undocumented immigrants in apportionment counts--a direct challenge to the 14th Amendment's "whole number of persons" requirement.

2) It would only allow two follow-up attempts for "any survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census." A similar provision was stripped from last year's bill. It's back.

The bill passed subcommittee 8-6. Full committee and Senate still ahead.

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