Executive Order 13986

Summary

Executive Order 13986, officially titled Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census, is the second executive order signed by U.S. President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. The order reverses Executive Order 13880 and other Trump administration policies that had excluded non-citizens from the census count for the 2020 census. Executive Order 13986 requires non-citizens to be counted in the 2020 census, both for the purposes of enumeration and determining congressional apportionment.[1]

Executive Order 13986
"Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census"
Seal of the President of the United States
TypeExecutive order
Executive Order number13986
Signed byJoe Biden on January 20, 2021 (2021-01-20)
Federal Register details
Federal Register document number2021-01755
Publication date20 January 2021
Summary
Requires the counting of non-citizens in the U.S. Census and for the apportionment of congressional representatives

Provisions edit

The order is to discontinue citizenship tabulations at the city-block level using 2020 census data with administrative records.[2]

Effects edit

Non-citizens, whether legal or illegal, are not to be excluded from numbers of persons used for apportioning congressional seats among the states.[2]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census". The White House. January 21, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts". AP NEWS. January 23, 2021. Retrieved January 23, 2021.

External links edit

  • US Presidential Actions
  • Federal Register
  • Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census