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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2826 

To establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the 

admission of climate-displaced persons, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 22, 2021 

Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ (for herself, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. 

BARRAGA ́N, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Ms. ESCOBAR) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 

Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Energy 

and Commerce, 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 

A BILL 

To establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, 

to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Table of contents. 

Sec. 2. Findings; sense of Congress. 

Sec. 3. Definitions. 

Sec. 4. Required data collection and reporting. 

Sec. 5. Global climate change resilience strategy. 

Sec. 6. Training of foreign service officers in climate change resilience. 


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Sec. 7. Guidance on the humanitarian impacts of climate change. 

Sec. 8. Admission of climate-displaced persons. 

Sec. 9. Authorization of appropriations. 

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

2 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) According to the Intergovernmental Panel 

4 on Climate Change, the Earth’s climate is now 

5 changing faster than at any point in history. 

6 (2) The October 2018 report entitled ‘‘Special 

7 Report on Global Warming of 1.5o C’’ by the Inter8 governmental Panel on Climate Change and the No9 vember 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment 

10 report found that a changing climate is— 

11 (A) causing sea levels to rise; 

12 (B) contributing to an increase in wildfires 

13 and temperature extremes in some parts of the 

14 world; and 

15 (C) contributing to an increase in heavy 

16 precipitation in certain locations. 

17 (3) Forced displacement and forced migration 

18 are increasing in the context of environmental 

19 changes and climate-induced disruptions, including 

20 weather-related disasters, drought, famine, and ris21 ing sea levels. 

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1 mated 20,000,000 people from their homes every 

2 year during the previous decade. 

3 (5) The United Nations Human Rights Council 

4 has recognized that climate change poses an existen5 tial threat that has already negatively affected the 

6 fulfilment of human rights, specifically noting that— 

7 (A) parties should, when taking action to 

8 address climate change, respect, promote and 

9 consider their respective obligations on human 

10 rights; and 

11 (B) the adverse effects of climate change 

12 are felt most acutely by those segments of the 

13 population that are already in vulnerable situa14 tions owing to factors such as geography, pov15 erty, gender, age, indigenous or minority status, 

16 national or social origin, birth, or other status 

17 and disability. 

18 (6) The Office of the United Nations High 

19 Commissioner for Human Rights has suggested that 

20 a person who cannot be reasonably expected to re21 turn to his or her country of origin— 

22 (A) should be considered a victim of forced 

23 displacement; and 


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1 (B) should be granted at least a temporary 

2 stay in the country where they have found ref3 uge. 

4 (7) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 

5 Change affirms with high confidence that societal 

6 adaptations in the near term can help reduce the 

7 risks of climate change throughout the 21st century. 

8 (8) In 2013, Super Typhoon Haiyan made 

9 landfall in the Philippines, affecting nearly 

10 15,000,000 people and displacing more than 

11 4,000,000 people. 

12 (9) Since 2017, violence in Burma’s Rakhine 

13 State has forced more than 740,000 Rohingya refu14 gees into Bangladesh, where they remain exposed to 

15 the country’s vulnerability to the effects of extreme 

16 flooding and landslides worsened by climate change. 

17 (10) In 2020, extreme rainfall and flooding in 

18 Northeast India’s Assam State displaced more than 

19 3,300,000 people. 

20 (11) The small Pacific island Nation of Kiribati 

21 is preparing for large swaths of the country to be 

22 uninhabitable and for its people to migrate with the 

23 skill to integrate into their new host nation. 

24 (12) More than 150,000,000 people around the 

25 world now live on land that may be below sea level 


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1 or regular flood levels by the end of the century un2 less adaptation measures are taken. 

3 (13) The effects of climate change also exacer4 bate social, economic, and political tensions within 

5 and among nations. 

6 (14) A 2020 CARE report, ‘‘Evicted by Climate 

7 Change: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Cli8 mate-Induced Displacement’’, notes that— 

9 (A) the climate crisis exacerbates gender 

10 inequality and makes it harder to achieve gen11 der justice; 

12 (B) more than half of the 41,000,000 peo13 ple internally displaced in 2018 were women; 

14 (C) poor women and children are up to 14 

15 times more likely to be killed than men by a cli16 mate-fueled disaster, such as a hurricane, ty17 phoon, cyclone, or flood; and 

18 (D) women who are displaced by climate 

19 change related impacts often have less access to 

20 relief resources. 

21 (15) In 2014, the Department of Defense 

22 Quadrennial Defense Review cited the effects of cli23 mate change as a ‘‘threat multiplier’’ that could lead 

24 to violence abroad. 


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1 (16) In 2016, a memorandum from the Na2 tional Intelligence Counsel entitled ‘‘Implications for 

3 U.S. National Security of Anticipated Climate 

4 Change’’ highlighted how climate change could cre5 ate or aggravate tensions between nations in already 

6 disputed regions, such as the Arctic. 

7 (17) The 2020 Ecological Threat Register pub8 lished by the Institute for Economics and Peace 

9 projects that climate-related threats will continue to 

10 cause significant displacement worldwide over the 

11 coming decades. Nineteen countries, with a com12 bined population of 2,100,000,000 people, are noted 

13 to be most at risk given population growth, water 

14 stress, food insecurity, droughts, floods, cyclones and 

15 rising temperature and sea levels. 

16 (18) In February 2021, President Biden sig17 naled his intention to raise the United States ref18 ugee resettlement goal. 

19 (19) In January 2021, President Biden issued 

20 Executive Order 14008 on tackling the climate crisis 

21 domestically and abroad. The order affirmed climate 

22 considerations essential to United States foreign and 

23 defense policy, reaffirmed the role of the Special 

24 Envoy for Climate John Kerry, created a national 

25 climate task force, and set timelines to produce 


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1 strategies and implementation plans for integrating 

2 climate considerations into foreign policy efforts. 

3 (20) Previous presidential administrations have 

4 not systematically and specifically acted to address 

5 climate displacement or to provide appropriate dura6 ble solutions to those who are displaced. 

7 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con8 gress that the United States should— 

9 (1) reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emis10 sions on a scale and rate proportionate to its histor11 ical responsibility and the urgency of the threat of 

12 climate change; 

13 (2) welcome the shared responsibility of climate 

14 change adaptation, global disaster risk reduction, re15 siliency building, and disaster response and recovery; 

16 (3) assist in providing durable solutions for cli17 mate-displaced persons; 

18 (4) aid other countries in their climate change 

19 mitigation efforts; and 

20 (5) work with the international community— 

21 (A) to establish a framework to share such 

22 responsibilities; and 

23 (B) to ensure that the human rights of cli24 mate-displaced persons are acknowledged, re25 spected, protected, and fulfilled. 


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1 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

2 Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 

3 Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) is amended— 

4 (1) by amending paragraph (8) to read as fol5 lows: 

6 ‘‘(8) The term ‘climate-displaced person’ means any 

7 person who, for reasons of sudden or progressive change 

8 in the environment that adversely affects his or her life 

9 or living conditions— 

10 ‘‘(A) is obliged to leave his or her habitual 

11 home, either within his or her country of nationality 

12 or in another country; 

13 ‘‘(B) is in need of a durable resettlement solu14 tion; and 

15 ‘‘(C) whose government cannot or will not pro16 vide such durable resettlement solution.’’; and 

17 (2) by amending paragraph (34) to read as fol18 lows: 

19 ‘‘(34) The term ‘designated application center’ means 

20 any United States embassy or consulate, or other facility 

21 as the Secretary of State may delegate to accept applica22 tions for climate-displaced person status.’’. 

23 SEC. 4. REQUIRED DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING. 

24 (a) DATA COLLECTION.—The President, in coordina25 tion with the Department of Commerce, the Environ26 mental Protection Agency, the Department of State, the 


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1 United States Agency for International Development, the 

2 Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Depart3 ment of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, 

4 and other relevant agencies, shall collect and maintain 

5 data on displacement caused by climate change, including 

6 information from— 

7 (1) the International Organization for Migra8 tion; 

9 (2) the United Nations High Commissioner for 

10 Refugees; 

11 (3) UNICEF; and 

12 (4) other international organizations that are 

13 collecting such data. 

14 (b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after 

15 the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there16 after, the President shall submit to the Committee on For17 eign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on For18 eign Affairs of the House a report that details the collec19 tion and analysis of the data described in subsection (a). 

20 Each report required under this subsection shall be sub21 mitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 

22 annex. 

23 SEC. 5. GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE STRATEGY. 

24 Section 117 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 

25 (22 U.S.C. 2151p) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (b)— 

2 (A) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(b)’’; and 

3 (B) by adding at the end the following: 

4 ‘‘(2)(A) The President is authorized to furnish 

5 assistance to programs and initiatives that— 

6 ‘‘(i) promote resilience among communities 

7 facing harmful impacts from climate change; 

8 and 

9 ‘‘(ii) reduce the vulnerability of persons af10 fected by climate change. 

11 ‘‘(B) There shall be, in the Department of 

12 State, a Coordinator of Climate Change Resilience, 

13 who shall coordinate the assistance authorized under 

14 this paragraph.’’; and 

15 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

16 ‘‘(d)(1) The Secretary of State, in coordination with 

17 the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter18 national Development and the Special Presidential Envoy 

19 for Climate, shall establish a comprehensive, integrated, 

20 10-year strategy, which shall be referred to as the ‘Global 

21 Climate Change Resilience Strategy’, to mitigate the im22 pacts of climate change on displacement and humanitarian 

23 emergencies. 

24 ‘‘(2) The Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy 

25 shall— 


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1 ‘‘(A) focus on addressing slow-onset and rapid2 onset effects of events caused by climate change; 

3 ‘‘(B) consider the effects of events caused by 

4 climate change; 

5 ‘‘(C) describe the key features of successful 

6 strategies to prevent such conditions; 

7 ‘‘(D) include specific objectives and multisec8 toral approaches to the effects of events caused by 

9 climate change; 

10 ‘‘(E) describe approaches that ensure national 

11 leadership, as appropriate, and substantively engage 

12 with civil society, local partners, and the affected 

13 communities, including marginalized populations and 

14 underserved populations, in the design, implementa15 tion, and monitoring of climate change programs to 

16 best safeguard the future of those subject to dis17 placement; 

18 ‘‘(F) assign roles for relevant Federal agencies 

19 to avoid duplication of efforts, while ensuring that— 

20 ‘‘(i) the Department of State is responsible 

21 for— 

22 ‘‘(I) leading the Global Climate 

23 Change Resilience Strategy; 

24 ‘‘(II) establishing United States for25 eign policy; 


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1 ‘‘(III) advancing diplomatic and polit2 ical efforts; 

3 ‘‘(IV) guiding security assistance and 

4 related civilian security efforts to mitigate 

5 climate change threats; and 

6 ‘‘(V) providing overseas humanitarian 

7 assistance to respond to international dis8 placement caused by climate change and to 

9 coordinate the pursuit of protection and 

10 durable solutions for climate-displaced per11 sons, including resettlement into the 

12 United States; 

13 ‘‘(ii) the United States Agency for Inter14 national Development is— 

15 ‘‘(I) responsible for overseeing pro16 grams to prevent the effects of events 

17 caused by climate change; and 

18 ‘‘(II) the lead implementing agency 

19 for providing overseas humanitarian assist20 ance to respond to internal displacement 

21 and food insecurity caused by climate 

22 change, and for development and related 

23 nonsecurity program policy related to 

24 building resilience and achieving recovery; 

25 and 


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1 ‘‘(iii) other Federal agencies support the 

2 activities of the Department of State and the 

3 United States Agency for International Devel4 opment, as appropriate, with the concurrence of 

5 the Secretary of State and the Administrator of 

6 the United States Agency for International De7 velopment; 

8 ‘‘(G) describe programs that agencies will un9 dertake to achieve the stated objectives, including 

10 descriptions of existing programs and funding by fis11 cal year and account; 

12 ‘‘(H) identify mechanisms to improve coordina13 tion between the United States, foreign govern14 ments, and international organizations, including the 

15 World Bank, the United Nations, regional organiza16 tions, and private sector organizations; 

17 ‘‘(I) address efforts to expand public-private 

18 partnerships and leverage private sector resources; 

19 ‘‘(J) describe the criteria, metrics, and mecha20 nisms for monitoring and evaluation of programs 

21 and objectives in the Global Climate Change Resil22 ience Strategy; and 

23 ‘‘(K) describe how the Global Climate Change 

24 Resilience Strategy will ensure that programs are 

25 country-led and context-specific. 


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1 ‘‘(3) Not later than 270 days after the date of the 

2 enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the 

3 President shall submit a report to Committee on Foreign 

4 Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign 

5 Affairs of the House of Representatives, based in part on 

6 the information collected pursuant to this section, that de7 tails the Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy. The 

8 report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may 

9 include a classified annex, if necessary. 

10 ‘‘(4) Not later than 180 days after the date of the 

11 enactment of this subsection, the Secretary of State and 

12 the Coordinator of Global Climate Change Resilience shall 

13 brief the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Sen14 ate Foreign Relations Committee on administration 

15 progress towards the Global Climate Change Resilience 

16 Strategy. 

17 ‘‘(5)(A) Not later than 270 days after the date of 

18 the enactment of this subsection, and annually thereafter, 

19 the Comptroller General of the United States, in coopera20 tion and consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 

21 produce a report evaluating the progress that the Federal 

22 Government has made toward incorporating climate 

23 change into department and agency policies, including the 

24 resources that have been allocated for such purpose. 


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1 ‘‘(B) The report required under subparagraph (A) 

2 shall assess— 

3 ‘‘(i) the degree to which the Department of 

4 State and the United States Agency for Inter5 national Development (USAID) are— 

6 ‘‘(I) developing climate change risk assess7 ments; and 

8 ‘‘(II) providing guidance to missions on 

9 how to include climate change risks in their in10 tegrated country strategies; 

11 ‘‘(ii) whether the Department of State and 

12 USAID have sufficient resources to fulfill the re13 quirements described in paragraph (2); and 

14 ‘‘(iii) any areas in which the Department of 

15 State and USAID may lack sufficient resources to 

16 fulfill such requirements.’’. 

17 SEC. 6. TRAINING OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS IN CLI18 MATE CHANGE RESILIENCE. 

19 Section 708(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 

20 (22 U.S.C. 4028(a)(1)) is amended— 

21 (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

22 the end; 

23 (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period 

24 at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

25 (3) by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘(E) for Foreign Service Officers who will 

2 be assigned to a country from which climate3 displaced persons (as defined in section 

4 101(a)(8) of the Immigration and Nationality 

5 Act) have been displaced, instruction on climate 

6 displacement, including the Global Climate 

7 Change Resilience Strategy established under 

8 section 117(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 

9 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151p(d)).’’. 

10 SEC. 7. GUIDANCE ON THE HUMANITARIAN IMPACTS OF 

11 CLIMATE CHANGE. 

12 The Secretary of State shall provide guidance to each 

13 United States diplomatic mission, in accordance with Ex14 ecutive Order 13677 (79 Fed. Reg. 58229), addressing the 

15 humanitarian impacts associated with climate change. 

16 SEC. 8. ADMISSION OF CLIMATE-DISPLACED PERSONS. 

17 (a) ADMISSION OF CLIMATE-DISPLACED PERSONS.— 

18 (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 4 of title II of the 

19 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1221 et 

20 seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 

21 ‘‘SEC. 244A. CLIMATE-DISPLACED PERSONS. 

22 ‘‘(a) ADMISSION GOAL.— 

23 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 

24 207, the number of climate-displaced persons who 

25 may be admitted under this section in any fiscal 


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1 year (beginning with fiscal year 2021) shall be not 

2 fewer than the greater of— 

3 ‘‘(A) 50,000; or 

4 ‘‘(B) the number that the President deter5 mines, before the beginning of the fiscal year 

6 and after appropriate consultation with Con7 gress, is justified by humanitarian concerns or 

8 is otherwise in the national interest. 

9 ‘‘(2) EFFECT OF NUMERICAL ADJUSTMENT.—If 

10 the President determines that the number of cli11 mate-displaced persons who may be admitted in a 

12 fiscal year based on humanitarian concerns or the 

13 national interest is greater than the number set 

14 forth in paragraph (1)(A), the President shall— 

15 ‘‘(A) set the admissions level for climate16 displaced persons at the same time as the 

17 President determines the number of refugees 

18 who may be admitted in such fiscal year under 

19 section 207; and 

20 ‘‘(B) follow all of the procedures relating 

21 to refugee admissions under section 207, in22 cluding the requirement to engage in an appro23 priate consultation with Congress. 

24 ‘‘(b) ADMISSIBILITY; APPLICATIONS.— 

25 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) ADMISSIBILITY.—Subject to the nu2 merical limitation under subsection (a), the Sec3 retary of Homeland Security, pursuant to such 

4 regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, may 

5 admit any climate-displaced person under this 

6 section who— 

7 ‘‘(i) is admissible; 

8 ‘‘(ii) is not described in section 

9 208(b)(2); and 

10 ‘‘(iii) is not described in paragraph 

11 (2). 

12 ‘‘(B) APPLICATIONS.—Any noncitizen de13 scribed in subparagraph (A), regardless of such 

14 noncitizen’s immigration status, may apply for 

15 admission as a climate-displaced person if the 

16 noncitizen— 

17 ‘‘(i) is physically present in the 

18 United States; 

19 ‘‘(ii) arrives in the United States 

20 (whether or not at a designated port of ar21 rival and including a noncitizen who is 

22 brought to the United States after having 

23 been interdicted in international or United 

24 States waters); or 


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1 ‘‘(iii) applies at a designated applica2 tion center. 

3 ‘‘(2) LIMITATIONS.—Except as provided in 

4 paragraph (3), a noncitizen may not apply for status 

5 as a climate-displaced person if— 

6 ‘‘(A) the Secretary of Homeland Security 

7 determines that the noncitizen may be removed, 

8 pursuant to a bilateral or multilateral agree9 ment, to a country (other than the country of 

10 the noncitizen’s nationality or, in the case of a 

11 noncitizen having no nationality, the country of 

12 the noncitizen’s last habitual residence) that is 

13 outside of the zone in which the sudden or pro14 gressive change in the environment obliged the 

15 noncitizen to leave his or her residence, pro16 vided that such determination does not violate 

17 our Nation’s human rights obligations; 

18 ‘‘(B) the application is not filed within 1 

19 year after the date of the noncitizen’s arrival in 

20 the United States; or 

21 ‘‘(C) an earlier application by the noncit22 izen for climate-displaced person status has 

23 been denied. 

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1 ‘‘(A) UNACCOMPANIED NONCITIZEN CHIL2 DREN.—Paragraph (2) shall not apply to unac3 companied noncitizen children (as defined in 

4 section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 

5 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))). 

6 ‘‘(B) CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES.—Sub7 paragraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (2) shall 

8 not apply if the noncitizen demonstrates, to the 

9 satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Secu10 rity that— 

11 ‘‘(i) extraordinary circumstances pre12 vented the noncitizen from filing an appli13 cation within the period specified in para14 graph (2)(B); or 

15 ‘‘(ii) changed circumstances materially 

16 affect the applicant’s eligibility for climate17 displaced person status. 

18 ‘‘(C) REFERRALS AUTHORIZED.—The Sec19 retary of State may also accept applications 

20 submitted on behalf of eligible applicants for 

21 climate-displaced person status by qualified 

22 international agencies. 

23 ‘‘(4) CONTENTS.—Applications submitted under 

24 this subsection shall contain such information as the 

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1 retary of Homeland Security, determines to be nec2 essary to determine whether the applicant is eligible 

3 for admission as a climate-displaced person. 

4 ‘‘(5) FEES.— 

5 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 

6 subparagraph (B), an applicant for climate-dis7 placed person status shall not be charged a fee. 

8 ‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—If a noncitizen has ap9 plied for, and been denied, climate-displaced 

10 person status on 2 or more previous occasions, 

11 the Secretary may charge a reasonable fee for 

12 any subsequent applications, which shall set at 

13 a level equal to the average cost of adjudicating 

14 such applications. 

15 ‘‘(c) TREATMENT OF CLIMATE-DISPLACED PER16 SONS.— 

17 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A noncitizen who qualifies 

18 for climate-displaced person status under this sec19 tion shall be eligible for resettlement assistance, en20 titlement programs, and other benefits available to 

21 refugees admitted under section 207. 

22 ‘‘(2) TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND

23 SPOUSE.— 

24 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A spouse or a child 

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1 or (E) of section 101(b)(1)) of a noncitizen who 

2 is granted climate-displaced person status 

3 under this section may, if not otherwise eligible 

4 for such status, be granted the same status as 

5 the climate-displaced person if accompanying, 

6 or following to join, such noncitizen. 

7 ‘‘(B) TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.—An un8 married noncitizen who seeks to accompany, or 

9 follow to join, a parent granted climate-dis10 placed person status under this section, and 

11 who was younger than 21 years of age on the 

12 date on which such parent applied for such sta13 tus, shall continue to be classified as a child for 

14 purposes of this subsection and section 

15 209(b)(3), if the noncitizen attains 21 years of 

16 age while such application is pending. 

17 ‘‘(d) GROUNDS FOR INELIGIBILITY.—A noncitizen 

18 may not be admitted as a climate-displaced person under 

19 this section if the noncitizen is described in section 

20 208(b)(2). 

21 ‘‘(e) DEFINED TERM.—In this section, the term ‘non22 citizen’ means any person who is not a citizen or national 

23 of the United States.’’. 

24 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con25 tents for the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 


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1 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended by inserting after the 

2 item relating to section 244 the following: 

‘‘Sec. 244A. Climate-displaced persons.’’. 

3 (b) ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.—Section 209(a)(1) of 

4 the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(a)) 

5 is amended by inserting ‘‘or 244A’’ before the em dash 

6 immediately preceding subparagraph (A). 

7 (c) SAVINGS PROVISION.— 

8 (1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in section 244A of 

9 the Immigration and Nationality Act, as added by 

10 subsection (a)(1), may be construed to affect the 

11 United States commitment to the United States Ref12 ugee Admissions Program. 

13 (2) ADDITIONAL PROTECTIONS.—The protec14 tions described in such section 244A are in addition 

15 to the refugee admissions goal established by the 

16 Presidential determination described in subsection 

17 (a)(1)(B) of such section. 

18 SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

19 There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 

20 as may be necessary to carry out this Act. 

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