Equal Representation Act of 2025

The Frame

What this does

This change would alter how congressional districts and electoral votes are distributed among states, potentially shifting political representation away from states with higher non-citizen populations starting with the 2030 census.

Who is mentioned in the record

Potentially affected actors named in the source documents. Mention is not a position.

U.S. Citizens

Their citizenship status will be recorded on the census, and their state's congressional representation will be calculated based on the citizen population.

Non-citizens

Their status will be recorded on the census, and they will be excluded from the population count used for congressional apportionment.

What changed

Last recorded activity April 21, 2026.

What's next

Introduced.

Summary

This bill requires the U.S. Census Bureau to ask about citizenship status on the 2030 census and mandates that congressional seats be apportioned based only on the number of U.S. citizens rather than the total population. It also requires the government to publicly report census data broken down by citizenship status.

Why It Matters

This change would alter how congressional districts and electoral votes are distributed among states, potentially shifting political representation away from states with higher non-citizen populations starting with the 2030 census.

Key Facts

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Frequently Asked Questions

Will this change how many people are counted in the census?

The census will still count all people, but the bill requires the government to report the number of citizens and non-citizens separately and use only the citizen count to determine how many representatives each state gets in Congress.

When does this take effect?

The changes apply to the 2030 and all subsequent censuses.

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Shift in Apportionment Basis

The bill explicitly moves the basis for congressional apportionment from 'all persons' to 'United States citizens', a significant departure from historical census practice.

U.S. Census Bureau