Proposed organic law — not enacted

Proposed Organic Population Enumeration Law

Status: non-operative proposal; not enacted. Original source: Article 13 Section 6; approved latest policy decisions. Disposition: technical implementation classified separately. Intended legal type: protected organic law. Relocation approved: yes, for implementation details. Substance: constitutional categories approved; technical methods remain to be developed.

Enactment, amendment, and repeal require a majority of the authorized membership of each caucus under Article 20, without denominator reductions. The law remains subordinate, cannot diminish constitutional guarantees or evade higher requirements, and is subject to Constitutional Court review when challenged.

Usual resident population is the settled apportionment basis. Children and lawful noncitizen usual residents count; institutional populations remain tied to usual community residence; temporary visitors, genuinely short-term workers, and citizens permanently abroad do not count. Returnees count upon establishing usual residence. Voting eligibility is separate.

Pending implementation: uniform administratively necessary residence tests, temporary absences, students, displaced people, homelessness and comparable edge cases, without partisan, regional or communal manipulation. Develop an accurate mechanism offering indirect counting for sincere religious objections, including Yoma 22b concerns, without a State religious ruling or sovereign census role for religious authorities.

The exact technical method is unresolved. Token, household, administrative-record and cryptographic methods are possible subjects of expert review only; none is adopted or certified as satisfying every interpretation of halakha. Consult statisticians, privacy/security specialists and diverse Jewish and other religious authorities.

Implement data minimization; no compulsory religion, ancestry, ethnicity, national-community or caucus identification; no permanent communal lists; strict separation from voter registration, candidate eligibility, endorsements, immigration enforcement, military, intelligence and ordinary law-enforcement systems; separated optional demographic information; purpose limitation, confidentiality, disclosure controls, deletion or irreversible de-identification, independent audit and judicial remedies. Precise protocols, retention periods, disclosure controls and validation methods remain to be drafted and professionally reviewed.