Title: Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee Entry (ASSURE) Act
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to set forth requirements for programs for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, refugees.
Before initial placement or resettlement of a refugee in a state, and before any assistance is provided to a refugee in a state, the Office of Refugee Resettlement must submit to the state legislature, and the state must enact, a plan covering that refugee.
The Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shall ensure that every Identity History Summary provided by the FBI includes: (1) the subject's immigration or citizenship status, and (2) any violation of immigration laws that has been adjudicated regarding the subject.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4310 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4310

 To amend section 412(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
    require ratification of a plan with respect to a refugee by the 
 legislature of a State before the refugee may be initially placed or 
            resettled in the State, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 2017

  Mr. Perry (for himself, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Duncan of South 
  Carolina, Mr. Biggs, and Mr. Norman) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 412(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
    require ratification of a plan with respect to a refugee by the 
 legislature of a State before the refugee may be initially placed or 
            resettled in the State, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Allow State Sovereignty Upon Refugee 
Entry (ASSURE) Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATIONS ON PROGRAMS FOR DOMESTIC RESETTLEMENT OF AND 
              ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES.

    Section 412(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1522(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(E) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the 
preceding provisions of this paragraph, beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this subparagraph, the following limitations on programs 
for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, refugees under this 
chapter shall apply:
            ``(i)(I) Before the initial placement or resettlement of a 
        refugee in a State is made, and before any assistance under 
        this chapter is provided to a refugee in a State, the Director 
        shall submit a plan to the legislature of the State on the 
        refugee.
            ``(II) The plan shall include the following information 
        with respect to the refugee:
                    ``(aa) All necessary and foreseen costs to the 
                State for housing, providing benefits to, and education 
                of, the refugee.
                    ``(bb) All vaccination and health records of the 
                refugee in the possession of the Director.
                    ``(cc) All criminal history of the refugee.
                    ``(dd) Any ties to a terrorist organization or 
                organizations.
                    ``(ee) Whether the refugee is affiliated with any 
                of the groups listed as unindicted co-conspirators in 
                the case of United States of America v. Holy Land 
                Foundation for Relief and Development.
                    ``(ff) All records of the refugee found in the 
                Department of State's Consular Lookout and Support 
                System.
                    ``(gg) All records of the refugee that result from 
                the refugee interview conducted by United States 
                Citizenship and Immigration Services.
            ``(III) A plan described in this clause may pertain to 
        multiple refugees so long as the information described in 
        subclause (II) is provided with respect to each refugee in the 
        group.
            ``(IV) Before the initial placement or resettlement of a 
        refugee in a State is made, and before any assistance under 
        this chapter is provided to a refugee in a State, the plan 
        required under this clause must be ratified by the State 
        legislature and signed into law by the Governor of the State.
            ``(ii) No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, 
        and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are 
        authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended 
        for any position that assists in the resettlement of refugees 
        to the United States, contracted by the Secretary of State or 
        the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
            ``(iii) If a plan described in this clause is ratified by 
        the State legislature and signed into law by the Governor of 
        the State, the State may, at the option of the State, enter 
        into contracts with public or private entities to carry out 
        programs for domestic resettlement of, and assistance to, the 
        refugee or refugees who are the subjects of the plan.
            ``(iv) The State shall receive reimbursement from the 
        Federal Government for any expenses incurred under clause 
        (iii).''.

SEC. 3. INCLUSION OF IMMIGRATION INFORMATION IN PROVIDING IDENTITY 
              HISTORY SUMMARIES.

    The Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation shall ensure that the following information (to the 
extent obtainable by the Director) is included in every Identity 
History Summary provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
            (1) Information on the immigration or citizenship status of 
        the subject of the Identity History Summary.
            (2) Any violation of the immigration laws (as defined in 
        section 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
        U.S.C. 1101(a)(17))) that has been adjudicated with respect to 
        such subject.
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