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Proposed Federal House Legislation HB4760

Legislation Overview

Title: Securing America's Future Act of 2018

Subject: Immigration: Immigrant health and welfare: Administrative law and regulatory procedures: Administrative remedies: Adoption and foster care: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration: Aquaculture: Aviation and airports: Border security and unlawful immigration: Canada: Child safety and welfare: Citizenship and naturalization: Civil actions and liability: Computer security and identity theft: Congressional oversight: Crime victims: Crimes against children: Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation: Criminal justice information and records: Department of Homeland Security: Department of Labor: Department of State: Detention of persons: Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad: Drug trafficking and controlled substances: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use: Employee benefits and pensions: Employee hiring: Evidence and witnesses: Executive agency funding and structure: Family relationships: Federal preemption: Food industry and services: Foreign labor: Forests, forestry, trees: Fraud offenses and financial crimes: Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management: Government information and archives: Government liability: Government studies and investigations: Government trust funds: Health care costs and insurance: Health care coverage and access: Higher education: Human trafficking: Immigration status and procedures: Income tax credits: Intergovernmental relations: International law and treaties: Internet and video services: Juvenile crime and gang violence: Latin America: Law enforcement administration and funding: Law enforcement officers: Lawyers and legal services: Licensing and registrations: Mexico: Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor: Military personnel and dependents: Motor vehicles: National Guard and reserves: Organized crime: Personnel records: Photography and imaging: Public contracts and procurement: Refugees, asylum, displaced persons: Sanctions: Seafood: State and local finance: State and local government operations: Technology assessment: Telephone and wireless communication: Temporary and part-time employment: Terrorism: Transportation safety and security: Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation: Violent crime: Visas and passports: Wages and earnings: Worker safety and health

Description: Securing America's Future Act of 2018 This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise immigrant visa allocation provisions, including family-related visas. A nonimmigrant classification for parents of adult U.S. citizens is created. The diversity visa program is eliminated. Annual immigration levels are revised. The limit on the worldwide level of employment-based immigrants is increased. The H-2C visa temporary agricultural worker program is revised. A trust fund is established to provide incentives for such workers to return to their country of origin. DNA testing to establish family relationships is authorized. Employment eligibility verification provisions are revised. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall establish an employment verification system. No federal, state, or local government entity or individual may prohibit or restrict a federal, state, or local government entity or official from complying with the immigration laws or assisting related federal law enforcement activities. The bill revises provisions regarding: (1) detention of aliens in removal proceedings; (2) illegal entry and reentry; (3) inadmissibility and deportability of criminal aliens, gang members, drunk drivers, and sex offenders; (4) repatriation; (5) asylum and asylum fraud; (6) unaccompanied alien children; (7) foreign students; and (8) visa fraud. The bill: (1) transfers authority for strengthening the southern border from the Department of Justice to DHS; (2) revises border security provisions; (3) provides for additional border security personnel; (4) authorizes new ports of entry along the northern border and southern borders; (5) authorizes National Guard border security activities; (6) provides contingent nonimmigrant status for certain aliens who entered the United States as minors; (7) authorizes appropriations for specified border barriers and infrastructure; and (8) establishes Operation Stonegarden to make border security grants to law enforcement agencies. DHS shall: (1) submit a southern border threat analysis, (2) establish the Integrated Border Enforcement Team program, (3) implement the Border Security Deployment Program, (4) review social media activities of visa applicants, and (5) establish a biometric exit data system.

Session: 115th Congress

Last Action: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Last Action Date: June 21, 2018

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4760/all-info

Sponsors

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100 sponsors: Bob Goodlatte (R); Michael McCaul (R); Raul Labrador (R); Martha McSally (R); James Sensenbrenner (R); John Carter (R); Bill Flores (R); David McKinley (R); Ralph Norman (R); Lamar Smith (R); David Roe (R); Randy Weber (R); Pete Sessions (R); David Rouzer (R); Tom Marino (R); John Rutherford (R); Ken Buck (R); Ken Calvert (R); Steve Stivers (R); Claudia Tenney (R); Robert Aderholt (R); Andy Harris (R); Lloyd Smucker (R); Mark Walker (R); Garland Barr (R); Richard Hudson (R); Tom Rice (R); Dave Brat (R); Larry Bucshon (R); Jody Hice (R); Mark Meadows (R); Alexander Mooney (R); Ted Yoho (R); Stevan Pearce (R); Mike Bishop (R); Kevin Cramer (R); Barry Loudermilk (R); Pete Olson (R); Robert Pittenger (R); Brad Wenstrup (R); Bob Gibbs (R); Clay Higgins (R); Jeff Duncan (R); Kenny Marchant (R); Jody Arrington (R); Steve Chabot (R); Bill Posey (R); Scott DesJarlais (R); Martha Roby (R); Todd Rokita (R); Doug Collins (R); Jeff Fortenberry (R); Steven Palazzo (R); John Duncan (R); Ted Poe (R); Bill Johnson (R); Roger Williams (R); John Culberson (R); Marsha Blackburn (R); Eric Crawford (R); Vicky Hartzler (R); Lou Barletta (R); Ron Estes (R); Jim Banks (R); Don Bacon (R); Francis Rooney (R); Keith Rothfus (R); Karen Handel (R); Mike Kelly (R); Glenn Thompson (R); Tim Walberg (R); Drew Ferguson (R); Billy Long (R); Jeb Hensarling (R); Bruce Westerman (R); Joe Barton (R); Rob Bishop (R); David Schweikert (R); Tom McClintock (R); Diane Black (R); Ralph Abraham (R); Harold Rogers (R); Luke Messer (R); Gary Palmer (R); Kay Granger (R); Ann Wagner (R); Gus Bilirakis (R); Joe Wilson (R); Mark Sanford (R); Duncan Hunter (R); Doug Lamborn (R); Trey Gowdy (R); Blaine Luetkemeyer (R); Steve Scalise (R); Earl Carter (R); Lee Zeldin (R); Bruce Poliquin (R); Debbie Lesko (D); Sam Johnson (R); James Comer (R)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
House	Jun 21 2018	The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
House	Jun 21 2018	Rule H. Res. 954 passed House.
House	Jun 21 2018	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House	Jun 21 2018	On passage Failed by recorded vote: 193 - 231 (Roll no. 282).
House	Jun 21 2018	On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 191 - 234 (Roll no. 281).
House	Jun 21 2018	DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to replace the bill text with langauge found in H.R. 3440, the Dream Act of 2017.
House	Jun 21 2018	Ms. Lujan Grisham, M. moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H5433-5436)
House	Jun 21 2018	The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
House	Jun 21 2018	DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4760.
House	Jun 21 2018	Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
House	Jun 21 2018	Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 954. (consideration: CR H5380-5438; text: CR H5380-5423)
House	Jun 20 2018	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 952 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 with 1 hour of general debate. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
House	Jun 20 2018	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 954 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760. Motion to recommit allowed. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4760 under a closed rule.
House	Jan 24 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
House	Jan 12 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
House	Jan 11 2018	Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
House	Jan 10 2018	Introduced in House
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.
House	Jan 10 2018	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Natural Resources, 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 concerned.

Texts

Type	Date	Federal Link	Text
Introduced	Jan 12 2018	federal bill text	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

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Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call

Description	Vote Date	Yea Votes	Nay Votes	No Votes	Absent	Passed	Rating	Comments
On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	06/21/2018	191	234	2	0	No
Boyle, Brendan (D) Yea Cartwright, Matthew (D) Yea Doyle, Michael (D) Yea Evans, Dwight (D) Yea Fitzpatrick, Brian (R) Nay Kelly, Mike (R) Nay Marino, Thomas (R) Nay Perry, Scott (R) Nay Smucker, Lloyd (R) Nay Thompson, Glenn (R) Nay
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On Passage	06/21/2018	193	231	3	0	No
Boyle, Brendan (D) Nay Cartwright, Matthew (D) Nay Doyle, Michael (D) Nay Evans, Dwight (D) Nay Fitzpatrick, Brian (R) Nay Kelly, Mike (R) Yea Marino, Thomas (R) Yea Perry, Scott (R) Yea Smucker, Lloyd (R) Yea Thompson, Glenn (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name