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Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-909. Bill TextTo provide the nonimmigrant spouses and children of nonimmigrant aliens who perished in the September 11 terrorist attacks an opportunity to adjust their status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and for other purposes. 2/15/2007--Introduced. September 11 Family Humanitarian Relief and Patriotism Act - Provides permanent resident status adjustment or cancellation of removal and permanent resident status adjustment for an applicant alien who was: (1) on September 10, 2001, the spouse, child, or dependent son or daughter of a lawful nonimmigrant alien who died as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States; and (2) deemed to be a beneficiary of, and by, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Authorizes an alien who has been ordered excluded, deported, removed, or ordered to depart voluntarily from the United States to apply for such status adjustment. Makes the provisions of this Act inapplicable [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/30/2008 - Signed by President. Bill TextMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes. 7/26/2007--Passed Senate amended. (There is 1 other summary) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2008 - Title I: Department of Homeland Security Departmental Management and Operations - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2008 for the Offices of the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and the Inspector General.Withholds specified funds until the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) certifies and reports to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that DHS has revised its guidance with respect to relations with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to specifically provide for expedited timeframes for providing GAO with [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - Presented to President. Bill TextTo reauthorize the programs for housing assistance for Native Americans. 9/6/2007--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007 - (Sec.2) Reauthorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2012 for making of block grants under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) on behalf of Indian tribes for carrying out affordable housing activities. Considers, for purposes of the procurement and supply of personal property and nonpersonal services for executive agencies, a tribe or tribally designated housing entity to be an executive agency when carrying out housing programs, services, functions, and activities under such tribe or entity and its employees to be eligible to have access to such supply sources as executive agency employees. Requires, with respect to any grant made under NAHASDA that is intended to benefit one [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/11/2007 - For Further Action See Title III of H.R. 2954. Bill TextTo amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to enforce restrictions on employment in the United States of unauthorized aliens through the use of improved Social Security cards and an Employment Eligibility Database, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require inclusion of encrypted machine-readable electronic identification strips on Social Security cards. Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to: (1) develop the strip in a manner that enables employers to access the Employment Eligibility Database (EED) established by this Act; and (2) transmit to the Secretary of Homeland Security necessary information from an individual's application for a Social Security card or number for inclusion in the EED. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain the EED. Requires the EED to [...] show full description
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9-11) Bill TextA bill to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Senate and the House of Representatives should pass, and the President should sign, legislation to recognize the heritage of the United States as a nation of immigrants and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for more effective border and employment enforcement, to prevent illegal immigration, and to reform and rationalize avenues for legal immigration.
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Bill TextTo amend section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose mandatory sentencing ranges with respect to aliens who reenter the United States after having been removed, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Criminal Alien Accountability Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish minimum imprisonment terms for specified categories of aliens subject to criminal fines, imprisonment, or both, for reenrty as removed aliens. (Such provision does not apply to aliens removed for security or terrorist grounds.) Subjects an individual who knowingly aids or conspires to allow, procure, or permit any such alien to reenter the United States to criminal penalty, the same imprisonment term as applies to the alien so aided, or both.
Latest Action: 02/02/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Bill TextTo impose a criminal penalty on an alien who fails voluntarily to depart the United States after securing permission to do so, or who unlawfully returns to the United States after voluntarily departing. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a criminal penalty for an alien permitted to depart voluntarily from the United States who: (1) fails to do so within the time period specified (currently, subject to civil penalty only); or (2) after such departure, illegally reenters, attempts to reenter, or is present in the United States.
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Latest Action: 05/09/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo require an employer to take action after receiving official notice that an individual's Social Security account number does not match the individual's name, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. Employment Eligibility Verification and Anti-Identity Theft Act - Directs the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration to notify a person or entity each time that the combination of name and Social Security account number it has submitted for an individual does not match Social Security Administration records. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (HS) to notify a person or entity each time that: (1) an immigration status or employment authorization document presented or referenced by an individual during the employment eligibility verification process was assigned to another person; or (2) there is no agency record that the document was assigned to any person. Directs the HS Secretary to establish a system, meeting specified requirements, for [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/04/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Bill TextExpressing the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately and unequivocally call for the enforcement of existing immigration laws in order to reduce the threat of a terrorist attack and to reduce the massive influx of illegal aliens into the United States. 4/18/2007--Introduced. States that the President and the Secretary of Homeland Security should: (1) use every tool available to them to secure the borders against illegal entry; (2) seek state and local law enforcement assistance in enforcing immigration laws; and (3) warn Mexico that any further actions it takes to encourage illegal immigration to the United States will be viewed as interference with our domestic laws in violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. States that the President should announce that he will oppose any proposal to grant legal status or amnesty to illegal aliens.
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Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held. Bill TextTo provide for the implementation of the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. 8/3/2007--Public Law. (There are 2 other summaries) Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 - Provides for implementation of recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission).Title I: Homeland Security Grants - (Sec. 101) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) to establish Homeland Security Grant Programs (consisting of an Urban Area Security Initiative and a State Homeland Security Grant Program). Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to award Program grants through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Provides that none of the provisions regarding grants to states and high-risk urban areas shall be construed to affect programs authorized under the Federal Fire Prevention [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/26/2008 - Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee conc Bill Text
Making supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation, infrastructure investment, and economic and energy assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action: 09/18/2008 - The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 110-862, by Mr. Price (NC). Bill TextMaking appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes. 9/18/2008--Introduced. Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2009 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2009 for: (1) the Offices of the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Management, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Information Officer, the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding, and the Inspector General; (2) Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including for customs and border protection fencing, infrastructure, and technology; (3) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including for detention and removal operations (including to identify and remove aliens who have been convicted of a crime once they are judged deportable) and the Federal Protective Service; (4) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including for screening operations and procurement and installation [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 09/11/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Bill Text
To deny certain Federal funds to any institution of higher education that admits as students aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.
Also tagged in: Alien labor, Business, Congress, Congressional investigations, Congressional reporting requirements, Electronic data interchange, Electronic government information, Employee selection, Government information, Immigration, Labor, Old age, survivors and disability insurance, Small business, Social security, Social security numbers, Technology, Telecommunication
Latest Action: 08/01/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Bill Text
To evaluate and extend the basic pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation and to ensure the protection of Social Security beneficiaries.
Latest Action: 07/28/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals while such individuals were not citizens or nationals of the United States and were illegally in the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title. 7/28/2008--Introduced. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to provide that wages earned, and self-employment income derived by, individuals while they were not U.S. citizens or nationals, and were in the United States illegally, shall not be credited for coverage under the OASDI program.
Also tagged in: Criminal justice, Data banks, Driver licenses, Federal-state relations, Government information, Government paperwork, Immigration, Smuggling, State and local government, Technology, Transportation, Truck drivers, Trucks
Latest Action: 07/10/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Bill TextA bill to disqualify any individual who engages in or is convicted of human smuggling from operating a commercial motor vehicle or holding a commercial driver's license and for other purposes. 7/10/2008--Introduced. Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act - Amends federal transportation law to disqualify from operating a commercial motor vehicle any individual who uses a commercial motor vehicle to assist in the entry of illegal aliens into the United States. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to impose a lifetime disqualification from operating such a vehicle on any individual convicted under federal criminal law of assisting in such entry or in the harboring of illegal aliens. Revises content requirements of the commercial driver's license information system to include whether a commercial motor vehicle operator has been temporarily or permanently disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for violation of this Act. Requires a state to notify [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 07/11/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Bill TextTo disqualify any individual who engages in or is convicted of human smuggling from operating a commercial motor vehicle or holding a commercial driver's license and for other purposes. 7/10/2008--Introduced. Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act - Amends federal transportation law to disqualify from operating a commercial motor vehicle any individual who uses a commercial motor vehicle to assist in the entry of illegal aliens into the United States. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to impose a lifetime disqualification from operating such a vehicle on any individual convicted under federal criminal law of assisting in such entry or in the harboring of illegal aliens. Revises content requirements of the commercial driver's license information system to include whether a commercial motor vehicle operator has been temporarily or permanently disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for violation of this Act. Requires a state to notify the [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Adoption, Alaska, Authorization, Budgets, Caregivers, Child health, Child welfare, Children, Collection of accounts, Criminal justice, Custody of children, Disabled, District of Columbia, Education, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Families, Family services, Federal aid to Indians, Federal-local relations, Fingerprints, Foster home care, Fraud, Government information, Government publicity, Grandparents, Grants-in-aid, Guardian and ward, Health insurance, Higher education, Home schooling, Identification of criminals, Immigration, Income tax, Indian children, Indians, Indigenous peoples, Intergovernmental fiscal relations, Investment of public funds, Job training, Labor, Law, Legal fees, Medical care, Medicine, Minorities, Secondary education, Siblings, State and local government, Student enrollment, Students, Tax credits, Taxation, Unemployment insurance, Vocational education, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/25/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextTo amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school, and for other purposes. 6/24/2008--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.) Fostering Connections to Success Act - (Sec. 2) Amends Part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to give state plans the option of providing for the state to enter into agreements to provide kinship guardianship assistance payments to grandparents and other relatives who have assumed legal guardianship of children for whom they have cared as foster parents and for whom they have committed to care on a permanent basis. (Sec. 3) Amends SSA title IV [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Access to health care, Aged, Aid to dependent children, Ambulances, Anesthetics, Appropriations, Budgets, Business, Cardiovascular diseases, Cash welfare block grants, Children, Chronically ill, Communication in medicine, Communications, Disabled, Drugs, Electronic data interchange, Emergency management, Emergency medicine, Families, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Hawaii, Health insurance, Health policy, Higher education, Home care services, Hospital rates, Hospitals, Imaging systems in medicine, Immigrant health, Immigration, Kidney diseases, Lung diseases, Marketing, Medicaid, Medical care, Medical education, Medical fees, Medically uninsured, Medicare, Medicine, Old age assistance, Physicians, Prescription pricing, Quality of care, Rural affairs, Rural health, Sexual abstinence, State and local government, Technology, Telecommunication, Tennessee, Welfare
Latest Action: 06/12/2008 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 776. Bill TextA bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to preserve beneficiary access to care by preventing a reduction in the Medicare physician fee schedule, to improve the quality of care by advancing value based purchasing, electronic health records, and electronic prescribing, and to maintain and improve access to care in rural areas, and for other purposes. 6/11/2008--Introduced. Preserving Access to Medicare Act of 2008 - Craig Thomas Rural Hospital and Provider Equity Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) revise the payment adjustment for low-volume hospitals; (2) extend increased Medicare payments for ground ambulance services; (3) extend the authorization for Medicare rural hospital flexibility program grants; (4) provide for rebasing for sole community hospitals; and (5) extend the rural home health add-on policy through 2009. Revises the formula for payments for physician services to provide an update [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, Budgets, Capital, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Eviction, Executive departments, Federal aid to housing, Firearms, Firearms control, Housing, Housing authorities, Housing finance, Housing management, Housing subsidies, Immigration, Landlord and tenant, Law, Leases, Public housing, Rental housing, Welfare
Latest Action: 07/10/2008 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Bill TextTo improve the Operating Fund for public housing of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other purposes. 7/9/2008--Passed House amended. (There is 1 other summary) Asset Management Improvement Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from imposing restrictions or limitations on the amount of management and related fees f |
