Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Insular Area Mid-decade Census Act”.
Insular Area Mid-decade Census Act
A BILL
To amend title 13, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a mid-decade census of population for the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Census for the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended—
by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
by adding after subsection (f) the following:
“(g) The Secretary shall, in 2035 and every 10 years thereafter, take a mid-decade census of population as of the first day of April of the applicable year for each of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.”