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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7052 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used to carry out the proposed 
rule of the Department of Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Inadmissibility 
on Public Charge Grounds’’, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 9, 2018 
Ms. JUDY CHU of California (for herself, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. 
JAYAPAL, Ms. MOORE, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. PINGREE, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. NORTON, 
Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Ms. LEE, Ms. BASS, 
Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. POCAN, Mrs. NAPOLI-
TANO, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, 
Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, 
Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. NAD-
LER, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. PAL-
LONE, Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. TITUS, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. CROWLEY, 
Mr. COHEN, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. LARSEN of Washington, Mr. SOTO, 
Mr. SIRES, Mr. HUFFMAN, Miss RICE of New York, Mr. THOMPSON of 
Mississippi, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. 
ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, and Mr. GENE GREEN of 
Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide that no Federal funds may be used to carry 
out the proposed rule of the Department of Homeland 
Security entitled ‘‘Inadmissibility on Public Charge 
Grounds’’, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Federal Funds for 
Public Charge Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) immigrants and their families are a core 
part of our Nation; 
(2) their health and safety is critical to the 
health and safety of our communities. 
(3) Federal, State, and local assistance pro-
grams promote self-sufficiency by ensuring that fam-
ilies, including immigrant and mixed-status families, 
maintain their health, strength, and stability, and 
can continue contributing to the nation’s social and 
economic life; 
(4) the proposed rule of the Department of 
Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Inadmissibility on Pub-
lic Charge Grounds’’ is a sweeping and dangerous 
proposal that will impede access to essential food, 
medical care, and housing for many families; 
(5) the proposed rule would damage State and 
local economies while burdening health and service 
providers, and the Department of Homeland Secu-
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rity itself, in the preamble of the proposed rule, ac-
knowledges the severe consequences of this proposal 
including that it could cause ‘‘worse health out-
comes, including increased prevalence of obesity and 
malnutrition, especially for pregnant or breastfeed-
ing women, infants, or children’’, that it may ‘‘de-
crease disposable income and increase the poverty of 
certain families and children, including U.S. citizen 
children’’ and that it could lead to ‘‘reduced reve-
nues for healthcare providers’’, ‘‘pharmacies’’, ‘‘com-
panies that manufacture medical supplies or phar-
maceuticals’’, ‘‘grocery retailers’’, and ‘‘agricultural 
producers’’; and 
(6) the proposed rule would circumvent Con-
gress and reverse 100 years of law and policy, re-
stricting immigration and chilling access to services 
for which immigrants and their citizen family mem-
bers are eligible, in a manner not authorized or con-
templated by Congress. 
SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON FEDERAL FUNDS. 
No Federal funds (including fees) made available for 
any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer, en-
force, or carry out the proposed rule of the Department 
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of Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Inadmissibility on Public 
Charge Grounds’’. 
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