Executive Order 13986, officially titled Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census, is the second
executive order
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signed by U.S. President
Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. The order reverses Executive Order 13880 and other
Trump administration
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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.
Provisions
The order is to discontinue citizenship tabulations at the city-block level using 2020 census data with administrative records.
Effects
Non-citizens, whether legal or illegal, are not to be excluded from numbers of persons used for
apportioning congressional seats among the states.
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See also
* List of executive actions by Joe Biden
Listed below are executive orders beginning with order number 13985, presidential proclamations, presidential memoranda, national security memoranda, presidential determinations, presidential sequestration orders, and presidential notices sig ...
*2020 United States census
The United States census of 2020 was the twenty-fourth decennial United States census. Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2020. Other than a pilot study during the 2000 census, this was the first U.S. census to of ...
References
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US Presidential Actions
Federal RegisterExecutive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
2021 in American law
Executive orders of Joe Biden
January 2021 events in the United States
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