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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7484 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7484

  To require Members of Congress who are foreign nationals to file a 
    statement of their status as a foreign national, and for other 
                               purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 29, 2024

 Mr. Burchett introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
  To require Members of Congress who are foreign nationals to file a 
    statement of their status as a foreign national, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Dual Citizenship Disclosure Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING STATEMENT OF STATUS AS FOREIGN NATIONAL BY MEMBERS OF 
              CONGRESS.

    (a) Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after taking the oath of 
office of a Member of Congress for a Congress, a Member who is a 
foreign national shall file with the appropriate congressional ethics 
committee a statement describing the Member's status as a foreign 
national.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to a 
Member of Congress who filed a statement required under subsection (a) 
during a previous Congress.
    (c) Penalty for Noncompliance.--If a Member of Congress who is a 
foreign national fails to file the statement required under subsection 
(a), or if the appropriate congressional ethics committee determines 
that the statement is defective, the committee may impose a penalty on 
the Member of not more than $2,500, in addition to any other penalty 
applicable under the Rules of the House of Representatives or the 
Standing Rules of the Senate, as the case may be.
    (d) Definitions.--
            (1) Appropriate congressional ethics committee.--In this 
        Act, the term ``appropriate congressional ethics committee'' 
        means--
                    (A) the Committee on Ethics of the House of 
                Representatives, in the case of a Representative in, or 
                Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress; and
                    (B) the Select Committee on Ethics of the Senate, 
                in the case of a Senator.
            (2) Foreign national.--In this Act, term ``foreign 
        national'' means a national of a foreign state, as such terms 
        are defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality 
        Act (8 U.S.C. 1101).
            (3) Member of congress.--In this Act, the term ``Member of 
        Congress'' means a Senator or a Representative in, or Delegate 
        or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress.
    (e) Effective Date.--This Act shall apply with respect to the One 
Hundred Nineteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress.
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