2030 Census Changes Opposition

At a glance

• What: Resolution urging the U.S. Census Bureau to reconsider proposed 2030 Census changes that would exclude noncitizens from the count, end collection of race and ethnicity data, and preclude collecting sexual orientation information.
• Where it stands: Adopted as amended October 6, 2026, 11-0.
• Next: Done; the resolution is advisory.

Details

• File No. 261094, severed from the no-committee-reference agenda by Chen.
• Amendment of the whole (Chen, seconded by Walton): adds 'potential' before loss of funding, replaces 'up to $2.8 trillion dollars' with 'critical federal funding', refers to 'jurisdictions like San Francisco with significant immigrant populations', and strikes a reference to the Fourteenth Amendment. Carried 11-0; adopted as amended 11-0.

Sources

• Board of Supervisors minutes (draft), October 6, 2026: https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1452949&GUID=6CA19DD5-BB90-4C0E-A6E9-BD06EE6528FE

Log

2026-10-06 - Board of Supervisors

Severed; AMENDED and ADOPTED AS AMENDED, 11-0.

2026-10-06 - Board of Supervisors

• Supervisor Chen's amendments replaced a dollar figure with a reference to potential loss of federal funding; adopted without objection.