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National
Key Vote
Immigration Reform bill
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that reforms the Immigration and Nationality Act by increasing border patrol personnel, changing deportation laws and procedures, altering the verification system for eligibility and employment, and other similar measures aimed at decreasing illegal immigration into the U.S.
Official Title of Legislation:
HR 2202: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal entries into the United States, and for other purposes.
Highlights:
- Allows employers in 5 of the 7 states with the highest number of undocumented workers to voluntarily participate in pilot programs in which they can consult a national database to determine whether new employees are eligible to work in the U.S.
- Permits the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to deport documented workers if they use any relief program for one year out of their first seven in the U.S.
- Provides for the Attorney General to acquire and use additional physical barrier and border technology, including biometric identifiers, to deter illegal crossings into the U.S.
- Restricts what federal programs and benefits are available to both legally documented and undocumented workers.
- Increases border control personnel by 1,000 full time positions for each year between 1997 - 2001.
- Allows a state to receive payment from the Federal Government for costs of providing emergency medical services to an individual who is an undocumented worker, as long as the costs are not otherwise reimbursed.
- Increases criminal penalties for fraudulent use of government-issued documents, such as birth certificates, drivers licenses, or personal identification cards.
- $150 million to the Attorney General for costs associated with removing undocumented worker.
- Requires the INS, in cooperation with the State Department to inform and educate all legally documented workers of the physical, psychological and legal consequences of female genital mutilation.
Link to Legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:hr2202:
House Passage: 03/21/1996 : Bill Passed: 333 - 87 (Roll no. 89) Senate Passage With Amendment: 05/02/1996 : Bill Passed: 97 - 3 (Record Vote Number 108)
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTED BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. House Conference Report Vote: 09/25/1996 : Conference Report Adopted 305 - 123 (Roll no. 432)
Sponsor: Rep. Smith, Lamar (R-TX)
Cosponsors: Rep. Bachus, Spencer (R-AL)
Rep. Baker, Richard Hugh (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Baker, William (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Ballenger, Cass (-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Barr, Robert Jr. (-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Barrett, William (R-NE) (out of office)
Rep. Bartlett, Roscoe (R-MD)
Rep. Barton, Joe (R-TX)
Rep. Bateman, Herbert (R-VA) (out of office)
Rep. Beilenson, Anthony (D-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Bereuter, Douglas (-NE) (out of office)
Rep. Bevill, Tom (D-AL) (out of office)
Rep. Bilbray, Brian (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Bonilla, Henry (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Bono, Sonny (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Boucher, Frederick (D-VA)
Rep. Brewster, Bill (D-OK) (out of office)
Rep. Browder, Glen (D-AL) (out of office)
Rep. Bryant, Ed (R-TN) (out of office)
Rep. Bryant, John (D-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Bunning, Jim (-KY) (out of office)
Rep. Burton, Dan (R-IN)
Rep. Buyer, Stephen (R-IN)
Rep. Calvert, Ken (R-CA)
Rep. Camp, David (R-MI)
Rep. Canady, Charles (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Chambliss, C. Saxby (-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Coble, John (R-NC)
Rep. Collins, Mac (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Combest, Larry (-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Condit, Gary (D-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Cooley, Wes (R-OR) (out of office)
Rep. Cox, Christopher (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Cramer, Robert (D-AL) (out of office)
Rep. Cremeans, Frank Arnold (-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Cunningham, Randall (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Deal, Nathan (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Doolittle, John (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Dornan, Robert (-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Dreier, David (R-CA)
Rep. Duncan, John Jr. (R-TN)
Rep. Emerson, Bill (R-MO) (out of office)
Rep. Everett, Terry (R-AL) (out of office)
Rep. Ewing, Thomas (R-IL) (out of office)
Rep. Fields, Jack Jr. (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Foley, Mark (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Fowler, Tillie (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Franks, Gary (-CT) (out of office)
Rep. Frazer, Victor (I-VI) (out of office)
Rep. Gallegly, Elton (R-CA)
Rep. Gekas, George (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Geren, Pete (D-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Goodlatte, Robert (R-VA)
Rep. Goss, Porter (-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Greenwood, James (-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Gutknecht, Gilbert (R-MN) (out of office)
Rep. Hall, Ralph (R-TX)
Rep. Hancock, Melton (R-MO) (out of office)
Rep. Hansen, James (-UT) (out of office)
Rep. Harman, Jane (D-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Hastert, J. Dennis (R-IL) (out of office)
Rep. Hastings, Doc (R-WA)
Rep. Hayes, James (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Hefley, Joel (R-CO) (out of office)
Rep. Heineman, Fredrick Kenneth Fred' (R-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Herger, Walter Jr. (R-CA)
Rep. Hoekstra, Peter (R-MI)
Rep. Horn, Stephen (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Hunter, Duncan (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Hutchinson, Y. Tim (R-AR) (out of office)
Rep. Inglis, Robert Sr. (R-SC) (out of office)
Rep. Johnson, Samuel (R-TX)
Rep. Jones, Walter Jr. (R-NC)
Rep. Kasich, John (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Kingston, Jack (R-GA)
Rep. Laughlin, Greg (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Lewis, Ron (R-KY) (out of office)
Rep. Lightfoot, Jim Ross (-IA) (out of office)
Rep. Linder, John (R-GA)
Rep. Lipinski, William (-IL) (out of office)
Rep. Livingston, Robert (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Martini, Bill (R-NJ) (out of office)
Rep. McCollum, Bill (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. McCrery, James III (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. McKeon, Howard (R-CA)
Rep. Meyers, Jan (R-KS) (out of office)
Rep. Molinari, Susan (R-NY) (out of office)
Rep. Moorhead, Carlos (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Norwood, Charles Jr. (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Obey, David Ross (D-WI)
Rep. Packard, Ronald (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Parker, Paul Michael (-MS) (out of office)
Rep. Paxon, William (R-NY) (out of office)
Rep. Pickett, Owen (D-VA) (out of office)
Rep. Pombo, Richard (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Quillen, James (R-TN) (out of office)
Rep. Radanovich, George (R-CA)
Rep. Regula, Ralph (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Riggs, Frank Duncan (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Roberts, Pat (R-KS) (out of office)
Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana (R-CA)
Rep. Roukema, Marge (R-NJ) (out of office)
Rep. Royce, Edward (R-CA)
Rep. Salmon, Matthew (-AZ) (out of office)
Rep. Schaefer, Daniel (R-CO) (out of office)
Rep. Seastrand, Andrea (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James Jr. (R-WI)
Rep. Shadegg, John (R-AZ)
Rep. Shaw, E. Clay Jr. (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Shays, Christopher (R-CT) (out of office)
Rep. Shuster, E.G. (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Sisisky, Norman (D-VA) (out of office)
Rep. Skeen, Joseph (R-NM) (out of office)
Rep. Solomon, Gerald B.H. (R-NY) (out of office)
Rep. Spence, Floyd (R-SC) (out of office)
Rep. Stearns, Clifford (R-FL)
Rep. Stenholm, Charles (-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Stockman, Steve (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Talent, James (R-MO) (out of office)
Rep. Tauzin, William (-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Taylor, Charles (R-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Taylor, Gene (D-MS)
Rep. Thornberry, William (R-TX)
Rep. Traficant, James Jr. (-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Vucanovich, Barbara (R-NV) (out of office)
Rep. Wilson, Charles (D-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Zeliff, Bill (R-NH) (out of office)
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