One Citizen, One Seat Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Latest action
- Oct 10, 2025
What it does
The One Citizen, One Seat Act would require the Bureau of the Census to revise the 2020 decennial census population counts for each state to include only U.S. citizens, excluding non-citizens from the total population tabulation. The Secretary of Commerce must provide these revised counts to each state within 60 days of the bill’s enactment, and thereafter, federal grants to a state may only be awarded if the state uses exclusively the citizen-only population data for all purposes it previously used census data for. This change would affect how federal funding and representation are calculated, basing them solely on citizen population rather than total residents.
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
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Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.