CA AB2592

Secretary of State must incorporate census awareness and participation messages into public election materials beginning the year before the federal decennial census and continuing through completion of enumeration activities.

Census promotion messages in election materials must prioritize historically hard-to-count communities based on response rate data from the United States Census Bureau.

State voter information guide must include census awareness and participation information for any statewide election held less than one year before the decennial census.

Secretary of State must post census education and participation information on the Secretary's Internet Web site beginning the year before the decennial census through completion of enumeration activities.

Bill recognizes that California contains 10 of the nation's 50 hardest-to-count counties and that certain groups including lower income individuals, homeless persons, children, and immigrants have historically been difficult to reach in the census.