S.Amdt. 4452Senate119th Congress (2025-2027)

S.Amdt. 4452

Submitted March 17, 2026

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Senate amendment submitted

March 17, 2026

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SA 4452. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory
Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to
lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. EXCLUSION OF INDIVIDUALS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT IN
THE UNITED STATES FROM NUMBER OF PERSONS USED
TO DETERMINE APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES
AND NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES.

(a) Exclusion.--Section 22(a) of the Act entitled ``An Act
to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial
censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives
in Congress'', approved June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is
amended by inserting after ``not taxed'' the following: ``and
individuals who are not lawfully present in the United
States''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall apply with respect to the apportionment of
Representatives carried out pursuant to the decennial census
conducted during 2030 and any succeeding decennial census.
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