1. Short title; findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the 2020 Census Improving Data and Enhanced Accuracy Act or the 2020 Census IDEA Act . (b) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The decennial census was embedded in article I of the Constitution of the United States by the founders of the United States to measure the progress of the country and help chart its future. (2) The 2020 decennial census will, for the decade to follow, shape the reapportionment of the House of Representatives and the drawing of thousands of State and local political jurisdictions. (3) Nearly $700,000,000,000 in Federal assistance to State and local communities every year is informed by the results of the decennial census. (4) The President and Congress seek to make the 2020 decennial census the most complete, accurate, and fair decennial census in the history of the United States. (5) The decennial census is the largest peacetime mobilization undertaken by the Federal Government. (6) Any late, untested changes to the operational design of the decennial census will introduce great risk to the success of, the accuracy of, and public cooperation with the decennial census. 2. Limitations and requirements for the decennial census Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (f)— (A) in paragraph (1), by adding and at the end; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ; and and inserting a period; and (C) by striking paragraph (3); (2) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h)