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Bill· HRH.R. 5648 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2000
Provides that in any case in which an alien executes an Immigration and Naturalization notice of rights and request for disposition form admitting to illegal U.S. residence, giving up the right to a pre-departure hearing, and requesting a return without hearing, no departure shall be implemented: (1) unless the form was certified after legal consultation in the alien's native language or with an interpreter's assistance; or (2) until 72 hours after form certification.
Bill· HRH.R. 5625 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to establish a pilot program (Tech Smart pilot program) under which a specified number of aliens may be issued H- 1B specialty occupation visas without regard to applicable numerical limitations if the U.S. employer seeking such alien makes a qualifying annual scholarship contribution to an institution of higher education.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 438 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 2000
Supports the creation in El Paso, Texas, of the Paso al Norte Immigration History Museum. Urges its designation as the national museum of immigration from Mexico to the United States.
Law· SS. 3239 (106th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for an alien seeking to enter the United States as a broadcaster for the International Broadcasting Bureau of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or for a Board grantee, and such alien's accompanying spouse and children. Limits annual entrants, excluding spouse and children, to 100 per fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 5548 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2000
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) general administration; (2) a Joint Automated Booking System; (3) conversion to narrowband communications; (4) counterterrorism activities; (5) payments of costs of telecommunications carriers in complying with capability requirements; (6) administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities; (7) establishment of a Federal Detention Trustee to exercise functions relating to the detention of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions or those in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and detention of aliens in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) the U.S. Parole Commission; (10) legal activities; (11) antitrust activities; (12) the Offices of U.S. Attorneys; (13) the U.S. Trustee Program; (14) the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (15) the U.S. Marshals Service, including amounts for Federal prisoner detention; (16) fees and expenses of witnesses; (17) the Community Relations Service; (18) certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (19) administrative expenses related to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act; (20) the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (21) interagency law enforcement with respect to organized crime drug trafficking; (22) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (23) construction for specified agencies; (24) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (25) the INS; (26) the Federal prison system, including an amount for buildings and facilities; (27) Office of Justice programs; (28) State and local law enforcement assistance; (29) the Executive Office for Weed and Seed; (30) community oriented policing services; (31) juvenile justice programs; and (32) public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 109) Makes a provision of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 relating to grants for assistance to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 applicable for FY 2001. (Sec. 111) Makes a certain provision of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 that prohibits the use of funds by any Act to pay premium pay to any Department of Justice attorney applicable hereafter. (Sec. 112) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish the Genealogy Fee for providing genealogy research and information services. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Examinations Fee Account. Requires INS employees to collect fees before disseminating any requested genealogical information. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish and collect a premium fee for employment-based petitions and applications. Requires the fee to be used to provide certain premium-processing services to business customers and to make infrastructure improvements in the adjudications and customer-service processes. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account. (Sec. 114) Amends Federal law to make amounts in the Crime Victims Fund available to the FBI for improving services for the benefit of crime victims in the Federal criminal justice system. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to the Federal Prison System for the placement of certain prisoners sentenced under the District of Columbia Code in privately operated prisons. (Sec. 118) Bars the availability of funds for grant programs under this title to any local jail that runs "pay-to-stay" programs. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) minority business development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Census Bureau; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology-Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Advanced Technology Program and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including amounts for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets and for coastal and ocean activities; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (18) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (19) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (20) the fisheries finance program account; (21) departmental management; and (22) the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 210) Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish and administer through the National Ocean Service the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program to award graduate education scholarships in marine biology, oceanography, or maritime archaeology. Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services; (5) defender services; (6) fees of jurors and commissioners; (7) court security; (8) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (9) the Federal Judicial Center; (10) judicial retirement funds; and (11) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to designate judicial branch officers and employees to be disbursing officers and to certify payment requests from appropriations and funds. Sets forth provisions regarding liability of such officers and employees. (Sec. 305) Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, additional district judges for Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to appoint a circuit executive. (Sec. 307) Includes judicial branch agencies under the scope of Federal civil service provisions that authorize employment of personal assistants for handicapped employees. (Sec. 308) Deems service performed before the effective date of this section by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is a member on such date to be service performed as a law enforcement officer for purposes of Federal civil service retirement provisions. Deems service performed before such effective date by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is not a member on such date to be employee service for purposes of such provisions. Sets forth provisions regarding mandatory separation of members eligible for immediate retirement and entitlement to annuities. (Sec. 309) Authorizes justices and judges of the United States during FY 2001 to receive salary adjustments only if annual pay adjustments under Federal civil service provisions take effect in FY 2001. Appropriates an amount for such adjustments, provided they take effect. Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the Asia Foundation; (14) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (15) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (16) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (East-West Center); and (17) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for international broadcasting operations, broadcasting to Cuba, and capital improvements. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 404) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources to be appointed by the President. Makes such Deputy Secretary a Level II Executive Schedule position. (Sec. 405) Prohibits funds made available in this Act for the United Nations (UN) from being used by the UN for the enforcement of any treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing the UN to tax any aspect of the Internet. (Sec. 406) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by any Act to allow for the entry into, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of diamonds if the country of origin in which such diamonds were mined (as evidenced by a legible certificate of origin) is Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola, with the exception of diamonds certified by lawful governments of Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola. (Sec. 407) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to protect and perform protective functions related to maintaining the security and safety of: (1) a departing Secretary of State for a limited time period after termination of the individual's incumbency as Secretary on the basis of a threat assessment; and (2) an individual who has been designated as Secretary prior to such individual's appointment. Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the: (1) Maritime Administration for maritime security, operations and training, and the maritime guaranteed loan program; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on Ocean Policy; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) Federal Maritime Commission; (10) Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (11) Legal Services Corporation; (12) Marine Mammal Commission; (13) Securities and Exchange Commission; (14) Small Business Administration (SBA), including amounts for the Office of Inspector General and business and disaster loans; and (15) State Justice Institute. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 607) Sets forth Buy American provisions. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to: (1) enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion if such guidelines do not differ from proposed guidelines of October 1, 1993; (2) pay for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts until the President makes a specified certification; or (3) provide specified personal comforts in the Federal prison system. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations undertaking if: (1) such undertaking is a peacekeeping mission and will involve U.S. armed forces under the control of a foreign national; and (2) the President's military advisors have not submitted a recommendation that such involvement is in the national security interest and the President has not submitted such recommendation to Congress. (Sec. 616) Makes funds provided by this Act unavailable to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of such products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to products of the same type. (Sec. 617) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to issue visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified extrajudicial and political killings. (Sec. 618) Bars funds appropriated under any law from being used for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with any criminal background check system that implements requirements under the Federal criminal code in connection with certain restrictions on the transfer of firearms; and (2) any such system that does not result in the destruction of information submitted by persons determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 621) Bars the use of funds appropriated in this Act for purposes of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of certain deportable aliens. (Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for transporting any maximum or high security prisoner to any prison other than one certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to propose or issue rules or orders for implementing the Kyoto Protocol. (Sec. 624) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act for participation by U.S. delegates to the Standing Consultative Commission unless the President certifies to the Appropriations Committees that the U.S. Government is not implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered into on September 26, 1997, by the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine or until the Senate provides its advice and consent to the Memorandum. (Sec. 625) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated in this Act for the Department of State to approve the purchase of property in Arlington, Virginia, by the Xinhua News Agency. (Sec. 627) Amends the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to consider a taking of a Cook Inlet beluga whale under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to be a violation of such Act unless such taking occurs pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the National Marine Fisheries Service and affected Alaska Native organizations. (Currently, such act is considered a violation if it takes place between the enactment date of such Act and October 1, 2000.) (Sec. 628) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to revise and extend the authorization of appropriations for activities related to the Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement. Authorizes appropriations to provide economic adjustment assistance to fishermen pursuant to such agreement. (Sec. 629) Amends the Interstate Horseracing Act to include within the definition of "interstate off-track wager" pari-mutuel wagers placed or transmitted by an individual in one State via telephone or other electronic media and accepted by an off-track betting system in the same or another State as well as the combination of pari-mutuel wagering pools. (Sec. 630) Amends provisions of the Clayton Act to revise conditions under which a person is prohibited from acquiring voting securities or assets of another person prior to filing premerger notification and the expiration of a waiting period. Provides for graduated filing fees of up to $280,000, based on the amount of voting securities and assets held by the acquiring person as a result of the acquisition. (Currently, such fees are set at $45,000.) Directs the Assistant Attorney General and the FTC each to designate for hearing certain petitions a senior official without direct responsibility for the merger review process concerning the proposed acquisition at issue. Requires such officials to hear any petition filed with the FTC, by the acquiring person or by the person whose voting securities or assets are to be acquired, to determine: (1) whether a request for additional information or documentary material is unreasonably cumulative, unduly burdensome or duplicative; or (2) whether the request for such information or material has been substantially complied with by the petitioning person. Provides for an expedited merger review process of petitions filed with the FTC. Increases the number of days by which the waiting period may be extended from 20 to 30 days. (Sec. 631) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to take necessary measures to stabilize and renovate Lock and Dam 10 at Boonesborough, Kentucky, for extending the design life of the structure by an additional 50 years. (Sec. 632) Directs the FCC to modify its rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to: (1) prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels (as well as co-channels and first- and second-adjacent channels); and (2) prohibit any applicant from obtaining a low-power FM license if such applicant has engaged in the unlicensed operation of any radio station in violation of FCC radio licensing requirements. Prohibits the FCC, without specific authorization by Congress, from: (1) eliminating or reducing such minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; or (2) extending the eligibility for low-power FM stations beyond those organizations and entities proposed in MM Docket No. 99-25. Invalidates any previously issued low-power FM station license that does not comply with such rule modifications. Directs the FCC to conduct an experimental program to test whether low- power FM stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if such stations are not subject to the minimum distance separation requirements. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish test results and allow an opportunity for public comment; and (2) report test results and FCC recommendations on reducing or eliminating minimum distance standards to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 633) Makes an additional amount available for SBA salaries and expenses. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of funds provided in this or any previous Act or made available to the Department of Commerce for the issuance or renewal, for any fishing vessel, of any general or harpoon category fishing permit for Atlantic bluefin tuna that would allow the vessel to: (1) use an aircraft to locate, or otherwise assist in fishing for, catching, or possessing such tuna; or (2) fish for, catch, or possess such tuna located by the use of an aircraft. Amy Boyer's Law - Amends the Social Security Act to bar the public display or sale of any individual's social security number, or any identifiable derivative of such number, without the expressed consent, electronically or in writing, of such individual. Prohibits obtaining a social security number for purposes of locating or identifying an individual with the intent to physically injure, harm, or use the identity of the individual for illegal purposes. Provides prerequisites for consent, including that the individual be informed of the general purposes for which the number will be utilized and the types of persons to whom the number may be available. Provides that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or limit display, sale, or use of social security numbers: (1) required under certain Federal laws; (2) by professional and commercial users who use the information in the normal course of their business so long as a number is not publicly displayed or sold; (3) for law enforcement; or (4) that may appear in a public record. Authorizes persons aggrieved by violations of this law to bring civil actions in district courts to recover damages. Prohibits actions from being commenced more than three years after the date the violation was or should have been reasonably discovered. Subjects violators to civil money penalties as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security in addition to any other penalties that may be prescribed. Prescribes criminal penalties for such violations under the Social Security Act. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of imposing additional limitations on the use of social security numbers in public records. (Sec. 636) Prohibits the redesignation of Cuyahoga Valley National Park as a Class I area under the Clean Air Act. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified amounts for the DEA Drug Diversion Control Fee Account and the Maritime Administration maritime guaranteed loan program account. Title VIII: Debt Reduction and Other Matter - Provides for deposit of an additional amount into the account established to reduce the public debt. (Sec. 801) Requires the presiding officer of the Senate, on the first day of the 107th Congress, to apply all of the precedents of the Senate under rule XXVIII (conference committees, reports; open meetings) in effect at the conclusion of the 103rd Congress. Provides that there is now in effect a standing order of the Senate that the reading of conference reports is no longer required if the report is available in the Senate. Title IX: Wildlife, Ocean and Coastal Conservation - Makes an amount available to support activities that supplement existing funding available to the States and territories from the sport fish restoration and wildlife restoration accounts to be used for wildlife conservation and restoration plans and programs. (Sec. 902) Amends the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act to establish in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund a subaccount known as the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Authorizes States to apply to the Secretary of the Interior for approval of a wildlife conservation and restoration program or for Account funds to develop a program. Prohibits the use of no more than ten percent of the amount apportioned to a State for a program for wildlife-associated recreation. Permits Account funds to be used for wildlife conservation education programs except for programs that promote opposition to the regulated taking of wildlife. Makes a State agency ineligible to receive matching funds under this title if sources of revenue available to the agency after January 1, 2000, for wildlife conservation are diverted for any purpose other than agency administration. Amends the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to increase the maximum amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior to carry out North American wetlands conservation. (Sec. 903) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize appropriations for coastal impact assistance to producing coastal States with approved coastal impact assistance plans. Defines a "producing coastal State" as a coastal State with a coastal seaward boundary within 200 miles from the geographic center of a tract leased for drilling, developing, and producing oil and natural gas other than a tract within any Outer Continental Shelf area where a specified moratorium on new leasing was in effect as of January 1, 2000. Sets forth the formula for allocating such funds to producing coastal States and coastal political subdivisions and describes authorized uses. Requires the development and submission of a Coastal Impact Assistance Plan by each producing coastal State for transmittal to the Secretary of Commerce for approval prior to the disbursement of funds. Title X: Local TV Act - Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 - Establishes the LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board to approve or disapprove loan guarantees under this Act. Allows loan guarantees to be approved only to the extent provided for in advance in appropriations Acts. Requires such loans to be used to finance the means by which local television (TV) broadcast signals will be delivered to nonserved or underserved areas, with a loan priority for nonserved areas. States that the Board should give additional consideration to projects that also provide high-speed Internet access. Prohibits the Board from approving a loan for a project that is designed primarily to serve one of the 40 designated market areas or would alter or remove National Weather Service warnings from local broadcast signals. Limits a loan guarantee to 80 percent of a loan meeting requirements under this Act, with a total loan aggregate value limit of $1.25 billion. (Sec. 1005) Requires the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to administer all loan guarantees approved under this Act. Requires loan applicants to enter into stipulated performance schedules with respect to the signals to be provided through the project. Sets forth provisions regarding credit requirements, default procedures, and recovery of payments. Requires the Board to charge and collect a loan guarantee fee and use such fee to cover administrative costs. (Sec. 1006) Requires an annual audit and report concerning the loan guarantee program. (Sec. 1007) Directs the FCC to reinstate as tentative rural service selectees, and permit application amendments for: (1) Great Western Cellular Partners; (2) Monroe Telephone Services L.P.; and (3) FutureWave General Partners L.P. (Sec. 1008) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the definition of "satellite carrier." (Includes distributors under specified circumstances.) (Sec. 1009) Prohibits any loan guarantee from being approved after December 31, 2006. (Sec. 1011) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2006. (Sec. 1012) Requires the FCC to provide for an independent technical demonstration of any terrestrial service technology proposed by any entity that has applied to provide such service in the direct broadcast satellite frequency band to determine whether the proposed technology will cause harmful interference to any direct broadcast satellite service. Title XI: Encouraging Immigrant Family Reunification - Legal Immigration Family Equity Act (LIFE Act) - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to accord nonimmigrant status to certain aliens: (1) with pending or approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses or unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; and (2) with approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses of U.S. citizens or minor children of such spouses. Permits related status adjustments for qualifying aliens. (Sec. 1104) Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain alien class action participants who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1982, and maintained a qualifying period of unlawful U.S. residence. Considers certain Cuban and Haitian entrants as so qualifying. Requires demonstration of basic citizenship skills, with exceptions for elderly or disabled persons. Provides for related temporary stay of removal, employment authorization, and public assistance eligibility.
Bill· SS. 3226 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 2000
Religious Workers Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the special immigrant religious worker program.
Bill· SS. 3189 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 - Title I: Distribution of Child Support - Amends title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise requirements for the distribution of child support collected by States on behalf of children receiving certain welfare benefits. Title II: Review and Adjustment of Child Support Orders - Requires the chief executive officer of a State to certify that the State has established procedures to ensure that the State agency administering the child support enforcement program will be notified of certain families leaving the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program under SSA title IV part A. (Sec. 201) Requires the State child support enforcement agency to review and, if appropriate, adjust any child support order relating to any individual leaving the TANF program. Title III: Demonstration of Expanded Information and Enforcement - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop recommendations which address the participation of public non-IV-D child support enforcement agencies in establishing and enforcing child support obligations. (Sec. 302) Prescribes requirements for ten demonstration projects involving establishment and enforcement of child support obligations by such public non-IV-D agencies. (Sec. 303) Requires a Comptroller General report to Congress on private child support enforcement agencies. Title IV: Expanded Enforcement - Reduces from $5,000 to $2,500 the amount of child support arrearage which shall trigger denial of a passport. (Sec. 402) Revises requirements for the use of tax refund intercept program to collect past-due child support on behalf of non-minor children. (Sec. 403) Prohibits garnishment of certain compensation for a service-connected disability paid to a former member of the Armed Forces for: (1) alimony; or (2) child support less than 60 days in arrears. Permits no more than 50 percent of such compensation to be garnished to pay for such child support. Title V: Fatherhood Programs - Directs the Secretary to award competitive matching grants to eligible entities to establish programs to promote marriage and successful parenting, and help fathers and their families avoid or leave cash welfare (TANF) and improve their economic status. Establishes the Fatherhood Grants Recommendations Panel to review grant applications and recommend awards. (Sec. 502) Directs the Secretary to award a $5 million grant to an experienced, nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization to develop a media campaign and establish a national clearinghouse for information relating to fatherhood promotion. (Sec. 503) Directs the Secretary to award grants to States to encourage such media campaigns. (Sec. 504) Directs the Secretary to award block grants to encourage States to support the efforts of local governments, public agencies, and private nonprofit organizations to promote responsible fatherhood. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report to Congress: (1) an interim evaluation of abstinence education programs; and (2) on undistributed child support payments. (Sec. 603) Requires the Secretary to disclose new hire information to a State to assist in the administration of unemployment compensation programs. (Sec. 604) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make ineligible to receive a visa and to exclude from admission to the United States any nonimmigrant alien more than $2,500 in arrears in legally obligated child support. (Sec. 605) Declares that certain (welfare-to-work and child support) amendments made by Public Law 106-246 shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 806 of H.R. 3424 of the 106th Congress by Public Law 106-113. (Sec. 606) Eliminates the set-aside of welfare-to-work funds for payment of a successful performance bonus. (Sec. 607) Provides for an increase in payment rate, according to a specified formula, to States for short term training of staff of State-licensed or State-approved child welfare agencies providing services. Title VII: Effective Date - Specifies the effective date of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5448 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
New Economy Workforce Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish educational priorities for certain family-sponsored immigrants. Requires diversity immigrants to have at least a bachelor's degree. Establishes and sets forth the Secretary of State's verification obligations respecting foreign degrees and educational credentials. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a related fee. Establishes the Foreign Degree Equivalence Account in the Treasury.
Bill· HRH.R. 5453 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Declares Laurence Wallace eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident upon the appropriate application under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5452 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Declares Andrea Patricia Burton to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5454 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 2000
Declares Louise Ingrid Wallace to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5407 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 2000
Declares Tony Lara eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident upon the appropriate application under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5379 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise provisions respecting the mandatory arrest, detention, and release of specified criminal aliens pending removal proceedings. Establishes a minimum $2,000 bond for such aliens' release.
Bill· HRH.R. 5377 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the waiver of inadmissibility for criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 5378 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to U.S. presence requirements for aliens seeking cancellation of removal to eliminate a specified reference to categories of disqualifying offenses. ( Such provision still maintains such offenses as disqualifying continuous presence criteria.)
Bill· SS. 3149 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Amends the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1997 to provide for direct foreign student payment to the Attorney General of the required information fee under the foreign student and exchange program participant information collection program. (Currently such fee is collected and remitted by the institution of higher education or the exchange program.) Extends the deadline for such program's expansion to nationals of all countries.
Law· HRH.R. 5362 (106th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase employer-paid H-1B alien petition filing fees. Revises and extends the fee exemption for educational and related employers.
Bill· HRH.R. 5376 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 2000
Declares Sandra J. Pilot to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· SS. 3139 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2000
Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 2000 - Amends the Classified Information Procedures Act to apply such Act's provisions to immigration proceedings. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal alien terrorist removal provisions (title V). (Sec. 3) Entitles an alien in a removal proceeding to examine all evidence and admissibility records. (Current law excludes national security information and confidential information.) (Sec. 4) Entitles an alien subject to arrest and detention for removal or deportation to non-federally provided counsel, and access to all evidence. (Sec. 5) Exempts an alien who is a lawful permanent resident, parolee, or asylee from the security and related removal provisions. (Such provisions provide for limited hearings and use of nondisclosed information.) (Sec. 6) Provides for transitional application of information access provisions to alien detainees and aliens seeking immigration benefits.
Bill· SS. 3136 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 2000
Declares Edwardo Reyes, Dianelita Reyes, and their children, Susy Damaris Reyes, Danny Daniel Reyes, and Brandon Neil Reyes to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.
Bill· SS. 3120 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2000
Immigrant Fairness Restoration Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise specified restrictions respecting: (1) cancellation of removal; (2) deportability and admissibility; (3) judicial review; and (4) right to counsel.
Bill· SS. 3117 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 2000
Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2000 - Title I: Structural Changes - Establishes within the Immigration and Naturalization Service the Office of Children's Services which shall be responsible for coordinating and implementing law and policy for unaccompanied alien children. Directs the President to establish an Interagency Task Force on Unaccompanied Alien Children. Title II: Parole, Custody, Release, Family Reunification, and Detention - States that an unaccompanied alien child found in the United States shall be promptly paroled into the United States and placed under the jurisdiction of the Office. Sets forth a family reunification preference order. Prohibits, with an exception for violent children, detention in adult or delinquent children facilities. Directs the Office to develop procedures for prohibited detention practices. Title III: Access by Unaccompanied Alien Children to Guardians Ad Litem and Counsel - Directs the Office to provide that each unaccompanied child have counsel and guardian ad litem. Title IV: Strengthening Policies for Permanent Protection of Children - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a special immigrant juvenile visa (J Visa). Title V: Children Refugee And Asylum Seekers - Expresses congressional commendation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service' s issuance of its "Guidelines for Children's Asylum Claims." Directs the Attorney General to provide immigration officers with related training. Amends the Act to exempt unaccompanied alien children from certain removal and asylum filing provisions. Title VI: Reports to Congress - Directs the Comptroller General to report respecting the Office's effectiveness. Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5293 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony or certain firearm offenses inadmissible to the United States. Limits the waiver of inadmissibility for certain criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Makes an alien who has fraudulently misrepresented a material fact or obtained or sought to obtain immigration-related documents ineligible for a finding of good moral character under such Act. Revises provisions respecting: (1) termination of continuous presence for purposes of cancellation of removal for certain offenses; and (2) detention and release of criminal aliens pending removal decision.
Bill· HRH.R. 5285 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2000
Serious Human Rights Abusers Accountability Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make aliens who are serious human rights abusers (as defined by this Act): (1) ineligible for U.S. admission; (2) subject to removal or deportation; (3) ineligible for refugee or asylee status, and related status adjustments; and (4) ineligible for other specified immigration relief.
Bill· HRH.R. 5289 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 2000
Declares Moise Marcel Sapriel to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· SS. 3095 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2000
Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline. Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals. Title II: Adjustment of Status of Other Aliens - Makes certain aliens from the Soviet Union, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and Liberia residing in the United States eligible for status adjustment as applicable under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act. Title III: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status). Title IV: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986.
Law· HRH.R. 5266 (106th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2000
Declares Saeed Rezai to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5240 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 2000
Alien Children Protection Act of 2000 - Requires, with exceptions, an alien under the age of 18 who does not have an adult relative or guardian in the United States to be placed in a facility appropriate for children (as defined in this Act) while he or she is awaiting final immigration status adjudication. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to adjust the status of an alien under the age of 18 with no lawful immigration status to that of a permanent resident alien if: (1) the alien or parent or guardian has so applied, and the alien has resided in the United States for five consecutive years; or (2) no foreign-domiciled parent or guardian has requested the alien's return, and the Attorney General determines that a return would subject the alien to physical or mental abuse, and it is in the alien's best interests to remain in the United States. Limits the annual number of such status adjustments. Directs the Attorney General to appoint a child welfare professional or trained individual as such alien's guardian ad litem. Expresses the sense of Congress commending the Immigration and Naturalization Service for issuance and implementation of specified children's asylum claims guidelines. Directs the General Accounting Office to report with respect to U.S. embassy and consular efforts to reunify on a priority basis children in foreign countries with parents who are legally present in the United States.
Bill· SS. 3074 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
Immigration Protection Act of 2000 - Makes specified immigration-related acts of immigration consultants unlawful. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for such violations. Directs the Attorney General to establish specified district task forces to enforce such provisions. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to establish related outreach programs, including a toll-free hotline. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for confidentiality of related information and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality.
Law· HRH.R. 5234 (106th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
Amends the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the provisions of such Act to certain surviving spouses of deceased Hmong veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 5232 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 2000
Immigrant Health and Safety Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to cancel removal, and adjust the status to permanent resident, of a qualifying alien whose removal would result in extreme medical hardship for such alien, or the alien's citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent.
Bill· SS. 3068 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 2000
Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline. Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals. Title II: Adjustment of Status of Other Aliens - Makes certain aliens from the Soviet Union, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany, and Yugoslavia residing in the United States eligible for status adjustment as applicable under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act. Title III: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status). Title IV: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Ac to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986.
Bill· SS. 3060 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 2000
Amends the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the provisions of such Act to certain surviving spouses of deceased Hmong veterans.
Bill· SS. 2945 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares David Bale to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5071 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Act of 2000 - Establishes programs relating to early childhood education, including comprehensive programs, staff development programs, model Federal programs, and research and demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for allocation of such funds, with a focus on young children from low-income families, and with reservation of funds for migrant, Indian, and Native Hawaiian children. Title I: Comprehensive Early Childhood Education Programs - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance for comprehensive early childhood education programs to prime sponsors and other public and private nonprofit entities with approved plans and applications. Sets forth requirements for early childhood education councils, special grants to States, use of public facilities for child development programs, and Federal share of program costs. Title II: Training, Technical Assistance, Planning, and Evaluation - Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for preservice and inservice professional and nonprofessional training of individuals, including volunteers, for employment in early childhood education programs, to be conducted by the program agencies or higher education institutions. Directs the Secretary to provide for: (1) technical assistance and planning for prime sponsors and project applicants; (2) evaluation of Federal involvement; (3) Federal standards for early childhood education; and (4) development of a uniform minimum code for licensing facilities. Establishes a Special Committee on Federal Standards for Early Childhood Education. Title III: Model Federal Government Child Development Programs - Authorizes the Secretary provide financial assistance for establishing and operating model early childhood education programs for the children of civilian Federal employees. Authorizes civilian employees of any Federal agency or group of agencies to designate or create an agency committee and submit for the Secretary's approval a plan for a program to be directed by the committee. Sets forth requirements for program plans and the Federal share of costs. Title IV: Research and Demonstrations - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of research and demonstration projects relating to early childhood education. Authorizes grants and contracts for such program. Title V: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to establish procedures to assure that adequate nutrition services will be provided in early childhood education programs under this Act. Requires such services to make use of the Special Food Services Program for children. Sets forth prohibitions against discrimination, political activities, sectarian instruction, medical or psychological examination or treatment requirements, or research or experimentation on children (other than routine testing) without parents' informed consent, under programs assisted by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5062 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the disqualification from cancellation of removal for certain permanent resident aliens.
Bill· HRH.R. 5032 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Caribbean Amnesty and Relief Act - Title I: Clarification of Eligibility for Relief from Removal and Deportation of Certain Aliens - Provides for: (1) the adjustment to permanent resident alien status of certain nationals of Caribbean countries (and their spouse, children, and unmarried sons and daughters); and (2) employment authorization during the pendency of such status adjustment application. Title II: Visa Fairness Commission - Establishes in the Immigration and Naturalization Service the Visa Fairness Commission, which shall gather data on U.S. embassy and port of entry economic and racial profiling. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the visa fee for aliens who can prove in forma pauperis status.
Bill· HRH.R. 5102 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares Javed Iqbal to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5103 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares Pierre Lyn Ladouceur to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5105 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares Regina Smith to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5104 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Declares Derrick Leslie to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5061 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the appointment of a guardian ad litem for certain aliens under the age of 18 seeking U.S. asylum admission. States that the guardian shall assist in immigration- and asylum-related duties until: (1) the alien reaches 18 years old or departs; or (2) determination of the asylum claim.
Bill· HRH.R. 5035 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 2000
Immigration Services Consumer Protection Act of 2000 - Establishes criminal penalties for immigration consultants who handle immigration matters and do not meet specified requirements, including license and contract requirements. Exempts from such provisions: (1) attorneys; (2) certain law students and law graduates; (3) accredited representatives of qualifying organizations; (4) accredited foreign officials; and (5) persons authorized to practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and Naturalization Service as of a certain date. Authorizes the Attorney General to provide State grants to educate persons respecting the requirements of this Act. Provides for confidentiality of information provided under this Act, and fines for knowing violation of such confidentiality.
Bill· HRH.R. 4966 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2000
Restoration of Fairness in Immigration Law Act of 2000 - Title I: Due Process in Immigration Proceedings - Subtitle A: Judicial Review in Immigration Proceedings - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) with respect to judicial review of: (1) administrative hearings and habeas corpus; (2) asylum determinations; (3) alien apprehension and detention; (4) document fraud waivers; (5) orders issued in absentia; and (6) denial of voluntary departure requests. Subtitle B: Fairness in Removal Proceedings - Amends the Act with respect to removal proceeding provisions, including: (1) burden of proof for admissibility; (2) presumption in favor of withdrawal of admission application; (3) emergency absences; and (4) reinstatement of removal orders against illegal reentry. Subtitle C: Fairness in Detention - Amends the Act with respect to specified detention provisions, including the establishment of a detention alternatives pilot program. Subtitle D: Consular Review of Visa Applications - Amends the Act to direct the Secretary of State to establish a Board of Visa Appeals. Title II: Fairness and Equity in Cases Involving Previous and Minor Misconduct - Subtitle A: Increased Fairness and Equity Concerning Removal Proceedings - Amends the Act to revise specified removal proceedings provisions. Subtitle B: Increased Fairness and Equity Concerning 5-Year Bars to Admission and Other Grounds for Exclusion - Amends the Act to authorize admission ban waivers and other restrictions on inadmissibility with respect to aliens who: (1) abuse student visa provisions; (2) fail to attend removal proceedings; (3) make false citizenship claims; and (4) have committed minor criminal offenses. Title III: Encouraging Family Reunification - Subtitle A: Reuniting Family Members - Amends the Act with respect to: (1) visas for spouses and children of permanent residents temporarily waiting for visa numbers; and (2) refugee and asylee status for unmarried sons and daughters of refugees and asylees, respectively. Establishes specified protections against processing delays for children. Subtitle B: Limited Waiver of Grounds of Admissibility - Amends the Act to provide discretionary waivers of inadmissibility with respect to: (1) family members; and (2) unusual circumstances. Subtitle C: Eliminating Unfairness and Waste in Section 245(i) Waivers - Amends the Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January, 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes. Subtitle D: Equitable Procedures Concerning Voluntary Departure - Amends the Act with respect to voluntary departure to make discretionary: (1) determination of period of voluntary departure; (2) determination of voluntary departure bond based on individual circumstances; and (3) related penalties. Subtitle E: Fairness in Determination of Public Charge - Amends the Act with respect to specified public charge provisions. Title IV: Fairness in Asylum and Public Refugee Proceedings - Subtitle A: Increased Fairness in Asylum Proceedings - Amends the Act to provide for gender-based refugee status. Subtitle B: Increased Fairness sand Rationality in Refugee Consultations - Amends the Act with respect to refugee admission consultations. Title V: Increased Fairness and Equity in Naturalization and Legalization Proceedings - Subtitle A: Naturalization Proceedings - Amends the Act to authorize appropriations for immigration petition processing and backlog reduction. Waives the English language requirement and provides special consideration for the civics requirement with respect to the naturalization of certain aliens who served with special guerilla units operating from Cambodia or Vietnam. Subtitle B: Parity in Treatment for Refugees from Central America and Haiti - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline. Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals. Subtitle C: Equality of Treatment for Women's Citizenship - Declares as U.S. citizens certain deceased women who lost their U.S. citizenship solely because of marriage to an alien. Subtitle D: Fairness in the Treatment for Refugees from Liberia - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Liberian nationals. Subtitle E: Fairness in Review of Previously Granted Amnesty Rights - Amends the Act to eliminate the court jurisdiction limitation with respect to judicial review of denied status adjustment applications for certain (unlawful status) aliens. Subtitle F: Legal Amnesty Restoration - Amends the Act to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January1, 1986. Subtitle G: Equality of Treatment for Asian American Visa Petitions - Amends the Act to extend preferential immigrant treatment to certain U.S.-fathered aliens born in the Philippines or Japan. Title VI: Fairness and Compassion in the Treatment of Battered Immigrants - Amends the Act to modify procedures and provide special rules for battered spouses and children with respect to: (1) adjustment of status; (2) removal and deportation; (3) implementation of immigration provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); (4) waivers and exceptions to inadmissibility for otherwise qualified battered immigrants; (5) calculation of physical presence in VAWA cancellation of removal proceedings and suspension of deportation proceedings; (6) VAWA immigration protections; (7) VAWA cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain nonpermanent residents; and (8) good moral character determinations for self-petitioning immediate relatives. Prescribes guidelines for inapplicability of public charge determinations for designated aliens. Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to redefine "qualified alien" to include certain battered aliens for purposes of welfare and public benefits eligibility. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to declare restrictions on the use of assisted housing inapplicable to certain battered aliens. Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide that requirements and restrictions placed upon Legal Services Corporation funding shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from providing related legal assistance to certain aliens who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty. Directs the Violence Against Women Grants Office in the Department of Justice to report on services for underserved populations. Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Act) to include legal advocacy for domestic violence in immigration cases under the program of grants to encourage arrest policies. Includes alienage status within the definition of "underserved populations." Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to include immigration-related matters under the program of rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement grants. Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to include alienage status within the scope of underserved populations. Amends the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1999 to obligate funds for grants to combat violence against women, which shall include immigration-related matters. Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to include immigration-related matters under the program of campus domestic violence grants. Amends the Act to require each branch of the U.S. military to train its supervisory military officers in domestic violence dynamics in military families, and the protections available for battered immigrant women and children. Expands the purposes of training grants to combat violent crimes against women to include: (1) training immigration and asylum officers and judges; and (2) training justice system personnel on the judicial ramifications of the Violence Against Women Act, and the potential immigration consequences for perpetrators of domestic violence. Amends the Act to express the intent of the Congress that statutory constraints upon the powers of immigration personnel not be construed as discouraging crime and domestic violence victims from reporting crimes to the police, from cooperating in criminal prosecutions, or from obtaining the legal relief needed for protection from ongoing violence. Amends the Act to establish a humanitarian-material witness nonimmigrant classification. Extends access for battered spouses and children under the Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act, the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998, and Federal law relating to Cuban adjustment. Title VII: Unused Employment-Based Immigrant Visas - Provides for the recapture of unused employment-based immigrant visas. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Act with respect to: (1) the Board of Immigration Appeals; (2) asset forfeiture; (3) parole authority; (4) erroneous asylum applications; and (5) use of State personnel to carry out immigration functions. Directs the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to establish an Office of Border Patrol Recruitment and Retention. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Title IX: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 381 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2000
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) there should be established a National Community Health Center Week to raise awareness of health services provided by community, migrant, and homeless health centers; and (2) the President should issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States and interested organizations to observe such a week with appropriate programs and activities.
Bill· SS. 2912 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 2000
Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline. Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals. Title II: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status). Title III: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Ac to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986.
Bill· HRH.R. 4887 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 2000
Worker Amnesty and Opportunity Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for legal permanent resident status for certain undocumented or nonimmigrant aliens.
Bill· SS. 2876 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 2000
Privacy and Identity Protection Act of 2000 - Title I: Provisions Relating to the Social Security Account Number - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with regard to: (1) governmental use and treatment of social security account numbers, including restrictions on the sale of such account numbers by governmental agencies; and (2) prohibitions against public access to such account numbers in governmental agency possession, and against use of such account numbers on checks issued for payment by such agencies. (Sec. 101) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the current usage by governmental agencies of the Social Security account numbers of individuals, and derivatives of such numbers, for identification purposes; and (2) the most effective means by which any such usage extending beyond the original purposes of the Social Security account number may be minimized. Amends SSA title II to provide for independent verification of birth records provided in support of applications for Social Security account numbers. Directs the Commissioner of Social Security and the Attorney General to report jointly to Congress on the progress of the Social Security Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service in implementing a process for enumeration at entry for aliens entering the United States. Amends SSA title II to prohibit: (1) the appearance of Social Security account numbers on driver's licenses or motor vehicle registrations; and (2) the display of such account numbers, or any derivative, on any card or tag provided by governmental agencies to their employees for identification purposes. (Sec. 102) Provides for the regulation and restriction of the sale and purchase of the Social Security account number in the private sector. (Sec. 103) Amends SSA title II to subject criminal penalties the sale and purchase of Social Security account numbers. (Sec. 104) Amends SSA title XI with regard to civil monetary penalty authority concerning treatment of withholding of material facts, and application of civil money penalties to elements of criminal violations. (Sec. 105) Amends SSA titles II and XVI (Supplementary Security Income) (SSI) to provide authority for judicial orders of restitution in cases of Social Security payments obtained by fraud. Amends SSA title VII (Administration) to provide for the establishment of a special fund in the Treasury for receipt of restitution payments. (Sec. 106) Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for confidential treatment of credit report header information including the Social Security account number of the consumer or any derivative thereof. (Sec. 107) Amends SSA title VII to provide for law enforcement authority by special agents of the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration. Title II: Provisions Relating to Representative Payees - Amends SSA titles II and XVI to authorize reissue to beneficiaries or alternative representative payees of OASDI and SSI benefits misused by organizational representative payees. (Sec. 202) Amends SSA titles II and XVI to provide for: (1) oversight of nongovernmental organizational representative payees and disqualification from service as a representative payee upon a felony conviction; (2) fee forfeiture in case of benefit misuse by such a representative payees; (3) liability of representative payees for misused benefits; and (4) extension of civil monetary penalty authority with respect to representative payees.
Bill· SS. 2860 (106th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 2000
Classifies Sammie Martine Orr as a child for immediate relative status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4857 (106th)open
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 2000
Privacy and Identity Protection Act of 2000 - Title I: Provisions Relating to the Social Security Account Number - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with regard to: (1) governmental use and treatment of social security account numbers, including restrictions on the sale of such account numbers by governmental agencies; and (2) prohibitions against public access to such account numbers in governmental agency possession, and against use of such account numbers on checks issued for payment by such agencies. (Sec. 101) Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on: (1) the current usage by governmental agencies of the Social Security account numbers of individuals, and derivatives of such numbers, for identification purposes; and (2) the most effective means by which any such usage extending beyond the original purposes of the Social Security account number may be minimized. Amends SSA title II to provide for independent verification of birth records provided in support of applications for Social Security account numbers. Directs the Commissioner of Social Security and the Attorney General to report jointly to Congress on the progress of the Social Security Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service in implementing a process for enumeration at entry for aliens entering the United States. Amends SSA title II to prohibit: (1) the appearance of Social Security account numbers on driver's licenses or motor vehicle registrations; and (2) the display of such account numbers, or any derivative, on any card or tag provided by governmental agencies to their employees for identification purposes. (Sec. 102) Provides for the regulation and restriction of the sale and purchase of the Social Security account number in the private sector. (Sec. 103) Amends SSA title II to subject criminal penalties the sale and purchase of Social Security account numbers. (Sec. 104) Amends SSA title XI with regard to civil monetary penalty authority concerning treatment of withholding of material facts, and application of civil money penalties to elements of criminal violations. (Sec. 105) Amends SSA titles II and XVI (Supplementary Security Income) (SSI) to provide authority for judicial orders of restitution in cases of Social Security payments obtained by fraud. Amends SSA title VII (Administration) to provide for the establishment of a special fund in the Treasury for receipt of restitution payments. (Sec. 106) Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to provide for confidential treatment of credit report header information including the Social Security account number of the consumer or any derivative thereof. (Sec. 107) Amends SSA title VII to provide for law enforcement authority by special agents of the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration. Title II: Provisions Relating to Representative Payees - Amends SSA titles II and XVI to authorize reissue to beneficiaries or alternative representative payees of OASDI and SSI benefits misused by organizational representative payees. (Sec. 202) Amends SSA titles II and XVI to provide for: (1) oversight of nongovernmental organizational representative payees and disqualification from service as a representative payee upon a felony conviction; (2) fee forfeiture in case of benefit misuse by such a representative payees; (3) liability of representative payees for misused benefits; and (4) extension of civil monetary penalty authority with respect to representative payees.