S 2502 · 96th Congress · Government Operations and Politics
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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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.(1980-03-28)
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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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