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Senate Bill 3833
118th Congress(2023-2024)
Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act
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Introduced in Senate on Feb 29, 2024
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S. 3833 (Introduced-in-Senate)


118th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 3833


To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of, or who have committed, an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired are inadmissible and deportable.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

February 29, 2024

Mr. Hagerty (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Budd, Mr. Rubio, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cramer, Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Fischer, and Mr. Scott of South Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of, or who have committed, an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired are inadmissible and deportable.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act”.

SEC. 2. Inadmissibility and deportability related to driving while intoxicated or impaired.

(a) Inadmissibility.—Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(J) DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED OR IMPAIRED.—Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing, acts constituting the essential elements of an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired (as such terms are defined by the law of the jurisdiction in which the conviction, offense, or acts constituting the essential elements of the offense occurred, including an offense for driving while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or drugs, is inadmissible, regardless of whether such conviction or offense is classified as a misdemeanor or felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local law.”.

(b) Deportability.—Section 237(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(G) DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED OR IMPAIRED.—Any alien who has been convicted of an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired (as such terms are defined by the law of the jurisdiction in which the conviction occurred), including a conviction for driving while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or drugs, is deportable, regardless of whether such conviction is classified as a misdemeanor or felony under Federal, State, tribal, or local law.”.