Title: Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2017
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Resettlement Accountability National Security Act of 2017
This bill prohibits the admission of alien refugees into the United States unless Congress passes a joint resolution giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to resume admitting them.
The Government Accountability Office shall report on: (1) the national security impact of refugee admissions; and (2) specified costs of providing refugees with benefits under Medicare, Medicaid, disability insurance under title II of the Social Security Act, the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program), and low income rental housing assistance.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 80 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 80

To suspend the admission into the United States of refugees in order to 
 examine the costs of providing benefits to such individuals, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

 Mr. Babin (for himself, Mrs. Walorski, Mr. Burgess, Mr. King of Iowa, 
 Mr. Abraham, and Mr. Olson) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To suspend the admission into the United States of refugees in order to 
 examine the costs of providing benefits to such individuals, 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 ``Resettlement Accountability National 
Security Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF ADMISSION OF REFUGEES.

    Beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security may not admit into the United States an alien 
under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1157) until such time as there is enacted a joint resolution giving the 
Secretary authority to resume admitting aliens under such section.

SEC. 3. REPORTS.

    (a) Report on National Security.--Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to Congress a report on the impact on the 
national security of the United States of admitting aliens under 
section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157).
    (b) Report on the Cost of Providing Benefits to Refugees.--Not 
later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a 
report that includes, for the 10-year period preceding the date of the 
enactment of this Act, for aliens admitted into the United States under 
section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), the 
following information:
            (1) The average duration for which such an alien received 
        benefits under a program described in section 4.
            (2) The percentage of such aliens who received benefits 
        under a program described in section 4.
            (3) The cost, per year, to each program described in 
        section 4 for such aliens.
            (4) The number of such aliens who paid Federal income tax 
        or Federal employment tax during the first year after being 
        admitted to the United States.
            (5) The cost, per year, to the program described in 
        paragraph (5) of section 4 for such aliens.
            (6) The number and percentage of such aliens who received 
        benefits under a program described in section 4--
                    (A) 2 years after being admitted to the United 
                States;
                    (B) 5 years after being admitted to the United 
                States; and
                    (C) 10 years after being admitted to the United 
                States.
            (7) The cost, per year, to the Federal Government, to State 
        governments, and to units of local government of providing 
        other benefits and services, directly or indirectly, to such 
        aliens.

SEC. 4. BENEFIT PROGRAMS DESCRIBED.

    The programs described under this subsection are as follows:
            (1) The Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.).
            (2) The Medicaid program under title XIX of the Social 
        Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.).
            (3) Disability insurance benefits under title II of the 
        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402 et seq.).
            (4) The supplemental nutrition assistance program under the 
        Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.).
            (5) Rental assistance under section 8 of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
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