A bill to limit the applicability of certain penalty provisions of title 13, United States Code, relating to failure to answer questions presented in the decennial and mid-decade census.

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Introduced

28 March 1980

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Referred to Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Summary

Limits the applicability of specified penalty provisions relating to failure to answer questions presented in the decennial and mid-decade census to questions approved for the particular census by a concurrent resolution passed by Congress. Prohibits compelling an answer to census questions which apply to persons or families or the farms they occupy, unless such questions have been so approved.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/senate-bill/2502
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