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.

Provisions

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

Executive Order 13986

Effects

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

Executive Order 13986

See also

List of executive actions by Joe Biden

2020 United States census

References

External links

US Presidential Actions

Federal Register

Executive Order on Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census

Executive Order 13986

2021 in American law

Executive orders of Joe Biden

January 2021 events in the United States