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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4043
To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related purpose
and State-issued driver’s license, or other comparable identification docu-
ment, unless the State requires licenses or comparable documents issued
to nonimmigrant aliens to expire upon the expiration of the aliens’
nonimmigrant visas, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 20, 2002
Mr. FLAKE (for himself, Mr. GREEN of Wisconsin and Mr. CASTLE) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Govern-
ment Reform, and in addition to the Committees on House Administra-
tion, the Judiciary, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identifica-
tion-related purpose and State-issued driver’s license, or
other comparable identification document, unless the
State requires licenses or comparable documents issued
to nonimmigrant aliens to expire upon the expiration
of the aliens’ nonimmigrant visas, and for other pur-
poses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXPIRATION OF IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS
ISSUED TO NONIMMIGRANTS.
(a) STANDARDS
FOR ACCEPTANCE
BY FEDERAL
AGENCIES.—A Federal agency may not accept for any
identification-related purpose a driver’s license, or other
comparable identification document, issued by a State to
any person, unless the State has in effect a policy requir-
ing any such a license or document, when issued by the
State to an nonimmigrant alien, to bear an expiration
date—
(1) that is not later than the last day of the pe-
riod during which the nonimmigrant visa issued to
the alien is valid, as specified on such visa; or
(2) that is not later than 5 years after the date
on which the license or document is issued, in any
case in which the period of validity specified on the
nonimmigrant visa has been modified or superseded
by another document issued by the Department of
Justice or the Department of State.
(b) GRANTS
TO STATES.—The Attorney General
shall make grants to States to assist them in issuing driv-
er’s licenses and other comparable identification docu-
ments that satisfy the requirements of subsection (a).
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall take ef-
fect one year after the date of the enactment of this Act,
but shall apply only to licenses or documents issued to a
nonimmigrant alien for the first time after such effective
date and to replacement or renewal licenses or documents
issued according to State law after such effective date.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
(1) FEDERAL
AGENCY.—The term ‘‘Federal
agency’’ means any of the following:
(A) An Executive agency (as defined in
section 105 of title 5, United States Code).
(B) A military department (as defined in
section 102 of such title).
(C) An agency in the legislative branch of
the Government of the United States.
(D) An agency in the judicial branch of the
Government of the United States.
(2) NONIMMIGRANT
ALIEN.—The term ‘‘non-
immigrant alien’’ means an alien who is lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States by reason of having pre-
sented at the port of entry a valid unexpired non-
immigrant visa issued under section 221 of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201).
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