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the powers, duties, functions, or authority of the Attorney
General in the administration and enforcement of such Act
or any other law relating to immigration, nationality, or
naturalization. The fact that an alien may be eligible to
be granted the status of having been lawfully admitted for
permanent residence under this section shall not preclude
the alien from seeking such status under any other provi-
sion of law for which the alien may be eligible.
(i) ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS HAS NO EFFECT ON ELI-
GIBILITY FOR WELFARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS.—No alien
whose status has been adjusted in accordance with this sec-
tion and who was not a qualified alien on the date of enact-
ment of this Act may, solely on the basis of such adjusted
status, be considered to be a qualified alien under section
431(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-
tunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641(b)), as
amended by section 5302 of the Balanced Budget Act of
1997 (Public Law 105–33; 111 Stat. 598), for purposes of
determining the alien’s eligibility for supplemental security
income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.) or medical assistance under title
XIX of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).
(j) PERIOD OF APPLICABILITY.—Subsection (i) shall
not apply after October 1, 2003.
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SEC. 903. COLLECTION OF DATA ON DETAINED ASY-
LUM SEEKERS. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General
shall regularly collect data on a nation-wide basis with re-
spect to asylum seekers in detention in the United States,
including the following information:
(1) The number of detainees.
(2) An identification of the countries of origin of
the detainees.
(3) The percentage of each gender within the
total number of detainees.
(4) The number of detainees listed by each year
of age of the detainees.
(5) The location of each detainee by detention fa-
cility.
(6) With respect to each facility where detainees
are held, whether the facility is also used to detain
criminals and whether any of the detainees are held
in the same cells as criminals.
(7) The number and frequency of the transfers of
detainees between detention facilities.
(8) The average length of detention and the num-
ber of detainees by category of the length of detention.
(9) The rate of release from detention of detain-
ees for each district of the Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service.
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(10) A description of the disposition of cases.
(b) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Beginning October 1, 1999,
and not later than October 1 of each year thereafter, the
Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of each House of Congress a report setting forth the
data collected under subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending
September 30 of that year.
(c) AVAILABILITY TO PUBLIC.—Copies of the data col-
lected under subsection (a) shall be made available to mem-
bers of the public upon request pursuant to such regulations
as the Attorney General shall prescribe.
SEC. 904. COLLECTION OF DATA ON OTHER DETAINED
ALIENS. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General shall reg-
ularly collect data on a nationwide basis on aliens being
detained in the United States by the Immigration and Nat-
uralization Service other than the aliens described in sec-
tion 903, including the following information:
(1) The number of detainees who are criminal
aliens and the number of detainees who are noncrimi-
nal aliens who are not seeking asylum.
(2) An identification of the ages, gender, and
countries of origin of detainees within each category
described in paragraph (1).
(3) The types of facilities, whether facilities of
the Immigration and Naturalization Service or other
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Federal, State, or local facilities, in which each of the
categories of detainees described in paragraph (1) are
held.
(b) LENGTH OF DETENTION, TRANSFERS, AND DIS-
POSITIONS.—With respect to detainees who are criminal
aliens and detainees who are noncriminal aliens who are
not seeking asylum, the Attorney General shall also collect
data concerning—
(1) the number and frequency of transfers be-
tween detention facilities for each category of de-
tainee;
(2) the average length of detention of each cat-
egory of detainee;
(3) for each category of detainee, the number of
detainees who have been detained for the same length
of time, in 3-month increments;
(4) for each category of detainee, the rate of re-
lease from detention for each district of the Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Service; and
(5) for each category of detainee, the disposition
of detention, including whether detention ended due to
deportation, release on parole, or any other release.
(c) CRIMINAL ALIENS.—With respect to criminal
aliens, the Attorney General shall also collect data concern-
ing—
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(1) the number of criminal aliens apprehended
under the immigration laws and not detained by the
Attorney General; and
(2) a list of crimes committed by criminal aliens
after the decision was made not to detain them, to the
extent this information can be derived by cross-check-
ing the list of criminal aliens not detained with other
databases accessible to the Attorney General.
(d) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Beginning on October 1,
1999, and not later than October 1 of each year thereafter,
the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the
Judiciary of each House of Congress a report setting forth
the data collected under subsections (a), (b), and (c) for the
fiscal year ending September 30 of that year.
(e) AVAILABILITY TO PUBLIC.—Copies of the data col-
lected under subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall be made
available to members of the public upon request pursuant
to such regulations as the Attorney General shall prescribe.
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act, 1999’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 16, 1998.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate September 3 (legislative day, Au-
gust 31), 1998.
Attest:
GARY SISCO,
Secretary.