Bill Sponsor
House Bill 2431
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act
Introduced
Introduced
Introduced in House on May 16, 2017
Overview
Text
Introduced
May 16, 2017
Latest Action
May 24, 2017
Origin Chamber
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Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
2431
Congress
115
Policy Area
Immigration
Immigration
Primary focus of measure is administration of immigration and naturalization matters; immigration enforcement procedures; refugees and asylum policies; travel and residence documentation; foreign labor; benefits for immigrants. Measures concerning smuggling and trafficking of persons may fall under Crime and Law Enforcement policy area. Measures concerning refugees may fall under International Affairs policy area.
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Summary

Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and related federal law with respect to immigration law enforcement within the United States.

The bill authorizes: (1) states and localities to enact and enforce criminal penalties for immigration violations; and (2) state and local law enforcement personnel to investigate, arrest, and transfer aliens to federal custody.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shall: (1) make grants to states and localities for equipment, technology, and facilities; (2) construct or acquire additional domestic detention facilities for aliens pending removal; and (3) expand to all states a program that provides for the identification and removal of detained criminal aliens.

The bill provides for: (1) federal custody of inadmissible or deportable aliens upon state or local request, and (2) personal liability immunity for state or local personnel enforcing immigration laws.

States and localities shall: (1) notify the federal government of inadmissible or removable aliens encountered by law enforcement personnel, and (2) comply with federal law enforcement information requests.

Specified federal assistance is denied to a state or locality that prohibits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The bill: (1) revises certain terrorism-related requirements and prohibitions with respect to benefits, naturalization and denaturalization, asylum, voluntary departure, and removal; (2) adds new grounds of inadmissibility and deportability; (3) establishes probable cause standards for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers; (4) provides for increases in immigration enforcement personnel; (5) prescribes visa security provisions; (6) authorizes DHS to designate groups as criminal gangs and makes alien gang members inadmissible or deportable; (7) establishes an ICE Advisory Council; and (8) prescribes criminal alien removal provisions.

Text (1)
Actions (7)
05/24/2017
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 13.
05/24/2017
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
05/23/2017
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
05/23/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
05/16/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
05/16/2017
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Homeland Security, 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.
05/16/2017
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
Jan 11, 2023 1:36:46 PM