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This bill addresses the operations of the Bureau of the Census.
Specifically, the bill (1) requires the Deputy Director of the bureau to appoint an employee responsible for optimizing racial and ethnic equity in the decennial census of population; and (2) provides statutory authority for specified advisory committees.
The bureau may not include in the census any subject, type of information, or question that was not submitted to Congress.
The bureau must submit to Congress a report biannually that (1) describes each component of the operational plan for the subsequent decennial census of population; and (2) includes a detailed statement on the status of all research, testing, and operations that are part of the bureau's comprehensive plan for the decennial census.
The bureau must submit to Congress a certification stating that any question that has not appeared on the previous two decennial censuses has been researched, studied, and tested according to established statistical policies and procedures.
The Government Accountability Office must review such certification and report to Congress on whether the questions to be included have been researched, studied, and tested according to such policies and procedures.
The bureau, by January 1, 2026, and every 10 years thereafter, must transmit to Congress a lifecycle cost estimate for the decennial census of population first occurring after the date of transmittal.
The bureau must submit to Congress a report on local-level data and local field operations.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 8326 as passed House on Sep 15, 2022. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Sep 15, 2022Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveSep 15, 2022
House Sep 15, 2022 · the primary vote
Ensuring a Fair and Accurate Census Act
Passed
220 Yea 208 Nay 4 not voting
Party-line vote No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 8326 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 8326 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
6 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.