House Proposes to Eliminate Census Survey Used to Determine Federal Grant Allocations
Issue Brief 12-22
June 8, 2012
On
May 10, 2012, the House passed its fiscal year (FY) 2013
Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill (H.R. 5326). During floor
consideration, the House approved an amendment that would eliminate the U.S.
Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), which supplements the decennial
census and is used to generate data to determine the annual allocation of more
than $400 billion in federal funding to state and local governments. The
Senate’s version of the CJS spending bill, which has been approved by the
Senate Appropriations Committee, does not include a similar provision.