# Local Update of Census Addresses %% census-comment-callout:start — time-limited notice, remove after 2026-11-02 %% > [!important] Comment on the proposed census rule by Monday, November 2, 2026 > The Census Bureau has proposed rewriting who gets counted in the census, and where. Anyone can comment before the period closes. > > **What the proposed rule would change** > - **Who counts toward House seats:** Only U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents would count toward apportionment. As written, the rule would leave out international students, work-visa holders, refugees and asylees. > - **Where you count:** Your "usual residence" would be wherever you lawfully spent the most days between January 3 and April 1, as shown by your tax records. That test can put snowbirds, college students, people who moved and service members in the wrong place. > - **What the form can ask:** The census form could no longer ask about race and ethnicity, which it has asked in some form in every census since 1790. The American Community Survey would keep them. > > **How to comment** > 1. Use the official comment form on [Regulations.gov](https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/USBC-2026-0628-0001) (docket USBC-2026-0628). > 2. Write in your own words how the change would affect you or your community. Specific, original comments count for more than form letters. > 3. Submit by **November 2**. Comments become public record. The Bureau accepts anonymous comments if you enter "N/A" in the required name fields. > > **Need help?** [Hands Off Our Census](https://handsoffourcens.us/) is a nonpartisan coalition of census and data-policy groups. It has a [step-by-step comment guide](https://handsoffourcens.us/comment-guide.html), a [plain-language explainer](https://handsoffourcens.us/proposal.html) and a [Spanish-language page](https://handsoffourcens.us/comentarios.html). > > **Background:** [[2030 Census Residence Rule]] · [[How the Census Apportions Congress]] %% census-comment-callout:end %% The operation by which tribal, state and local governments review and correct the address list that the next decennial [[Census]] will be conducted from. It is the one formal opportunity a locality gets to add housing units the [[Census Bureau]] does not know about, and an address missing from that list is a household that never receives a questionnaire. LUCA is an information collection, so it travels the [[Paperwork Reduction Act]] clearance track like any other federal survey — see [[How a Federal Survey Is Approved]]. For the 2030 cycle, the 30-day notice reached the [[Federal Register]] on 17 February 2026, followed by a correction on 27 February that moved the published review window back a year, from October 2028–March 2029 to the correct October 2027–March 2028. ## See also - [[Census]] · [[Census Bureau]] · [[How a Federal Survey Is Approved]] · [[Paperwork Reduction Act]]