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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Immigration and Nat-
uralization Service Data Management Improvement Act of
2000’’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 110 OF IIRIRA.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 110 of the Illegal Immi-
gration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
(8 U.S.C. 1221 note) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 110. INTEGRATED ENTRY AND EXIT DATA SYSTEM.
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Attorney General shall
implement an integrated entry and exit data system.
‘‘(b) INTEGRATED ENTRY AND EXIT DATA SYSTEM
DEFINED.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘inte-
grated entry and exit data system’ means an electronic
system that—
‘‘(1) provides access to, and integrates, alien ar-
rival and departure data that are—
‘‘(A) authorized or required to be created
or collected under law;
‘‘(B) in an electronic format; and
‘‘(C) in a data base of the Department of
Justice or the Department of State, including
those created or used at ports of entry and at
consular offices;
‘‘(2) uses available data described in paragraph
(1) to produce a report of arriving and departing
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aliens by country of nationality, classification as an
immigrant or nonimmigrant, and date of arrival in,
and departure from, the United States;
‘‘(3) matches an alien’s available arrival data
with the alien’s available departure data;
‘‘(4) assists the Attorney General (and the Sec-
retary of State, to the extent necessary to carry out
such Secretary’s obligations under immigration law)
to identify, through on-line searching procedures,
lawfully admitted nonimmigrants who may have re-
mained in the United States beyond the period au-
thorized by the Attorney General; and
‘‘(5) otherwise uses available alien arrival and
departure data described in paragraph (1) to permit
the Attorney General to make the reports required
under subsection (e).
‘‘(c) CONSTRUCTION.—
‘‘(1) NO ADDITIONAL AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE
DOCUMENTARY
OR
DATA
COLLECTION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Nothing in this section shall be construed
to permit the Attorney General or the Secretary of
State to impose any new documentary or data collec-
tion requirements on any person in order to satisfy
the requirements of this section, including—
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‘‘(A) requirements on any alien for whom
the 
documentary 
requirements 
in 
section
212(a)(7)(B) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(7)(B)) have been
waived by the Attorney General and the Sec-
retary of State under section 212(d)(4)(B) of
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(4)(B)); or
‘‘(B) requirements that are inconsistent
with the North American Free Trade Agree-
ment.
‘‘(2) NO REDUCTION OF AUTHORITY.—Nothing
in this section shall be construed to reduce or curtail
any authority of the Attorney General or the Sec-
retary of State under any other provision of law.
‘‘(d) DEADLINES.—
‘‘(1) AIRPORTS AND SEAPORTS.—Not later than
December 31, 2003, the Attorney General shall im-
plement the integrated entry and exit data system
using available alien arrival and departure data de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1) pertaining to aliens ar-
riving in, or departing from, the United States at an
airport or seaport. Such implementation shall in-
clude ensuring that such data, when collected or cre-
ated by an immigration officer at an airport or sea-
port, are entered into the system and can be
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accessed by immigration officers at other airports
and seaports.
‘‘(2) HIGH-TRAFFIC LAND BORDER PORTS OF
ENTRY.—Not later than December 31, 2004, the At-
torney General shall implement the integrated entry
and exit data system using the data described in
paragraph (1) and available alien arrival and depar-
ture data described in subsection (b)(1) pertaining
to aliens arriving in, or departing from, the United
States at the 50 land border ports of entry deter-
mined by the Attorney General to serve the highest
numbers of arriving and departing aliens. Such im-
plementation shall include ensuring that such data,
when collected or created by an immigration officer
at such a port of entry, are entered into the system
and can be accessed by immigration officers at air-
ports, seaports, and other such land border ports of
entry.
‘‘(3) REMAINING
DATA.—Not later than De-
cember 31, 2005, the Attorney General shall fully
implement the integrated entry and exit data system
using all data described in subsection (b)(1). Such
implementation shall include ensuring that all such
data are available to immigration officers at all ports
of entry into the United States.
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‘‘(e) REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December
31 of each year following the commencement of im-
plementation of the integrated entry and exit data
system, the Attorney General shall use the system to
prepare an annual report to the Committees on the
Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the
Senate.
‘‘(2) INFORMATION.—Each report shall include
the following information with respect to the pre-
ceding fiscal year, and an analysis of that informa-
tion:
‘‘(A) The number of aliens for whom de-
parture data was collected during the reporting
period, with an accounting by country of na-
tionality of the departing alien.
‘‘(B) The number of departing aliens
whose departure data was successfully matched
to the alien’s arrival data, with an accounting
by the alien’s country of nationality and by the
alien’s classification as an immigrant or non-
immigrant.
‘‘(C) The number of aliens who arrived
pursuant to a nonimmigrant visa, or as a visitor
under the visa waiver program under section
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217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1187), for whom no matching departure
data have been obtained through the system or
through other means as of the end of the alien’s
authorized period of stay, with an accounting
by the alien’s country of nationality and date of
arrival in the United States.
‘‘(D) The number of lawfully admitted
nonimmigrants identified as having remained in
the United States beyond the period authorized
by the Attorney General, with an accounting by
the alien’s country of nationality.
‘‘(f) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO SYSTEM.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (d),
the Attorney General, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of State, shall determine which officers and
employees of the Departments of Justice and State
may enter data into, and have access to the data
contained in, the integrated entry and exit data sys-
tem.
‘‘(2) OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.—
The Attorney General, in the discretion of the Attor-
ney General, may permit other Federal, State, and
local law enforcement officials to have access to the