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Committee approves bill to create state census coordination effort after 2020 undercount concerns
2704482 · March 19, 2025
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Summary
Senate Bill 403, presented in committee by Rep. Howard Beatty, would establish structures to improve census participation ahead of 2030; sponsor said Arkansas’s 2020 undercount was 5.4% and estimated the state lost billions as a result.
Representative Howard Beatty presented Senate Bill 403 to create a state structure focused on improving the accuracy of federal census counts and on coordinating outreach ahead of the 2030 census. Beatty told the committee that Arkansas suffered a high undercount in the 2020 census, which federal analysts classified among several states…
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