Title: No Transportation Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
No Transportation Funds for Sanctuary Cities Act
This bill prohibits the obligation or expenditure of certain national infrastructure investment funds for discretionary grants (commonly known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery [TIGER] grants) for a surface transportation infrastructure investment project in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
A "sanctuary jurisdiction" means a state or political subdivision that prohibits or restricts a government entity or official from:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 824 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 824

   To amend title 23, United States Code, to prohibit expenditure of 
 certain transportation and infrastructure funds for a project located 
          in a sanctuary jurisdiction, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 2017

Mr. Smith of Missouri introduced the following bill; which was referred 
         to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 23, United States Code, to prohibit expenditure of 
 certain transportation and infrastructure funds for a project located 
          in a sanctuary jurisdiction, 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 ``No Transportation Funds for 
Sanctuary Cities Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF GRANT FUNDS IN SANCTUARY JURISDICTION.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 171. Prohibition on use of grant funds in sanctuary jurisdiction
    ``(a) In General.--No grant amounts made available under this 
chapter or provided under the heading `Office of the Secretary--
National Infrastructure Investments' (commonly known as TIGER grants) 
in the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2016 (title I 
of division L of Public Law 114-113) or any subsequent appropriation 
Act, may be obligated or expended for any project located, in whole or 
in part, in a sanctuary jurisdiction.
    ``(b) Sanctuary Jurisdiction Defined.--In this section, the term 
`sanctuary jurisdiction' means any State or political subdivision of a 
State that has in effect a statute, ordinance, policy, or practice that 
prohibits or restricts any government entity or official from--
            ``(1) sending, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging with 
        any Federal, State, or local government entity information 
        regarding the citizenship or immigration status (lawful or 
        unlawful) of any individual; or
            ``(2) complying with any Department of Homeland Security 
        detainer ordering that the government entity or official--
                    ``(A) temporarily hold an alien in custody so that 
                the alien may be taken into Federal custody;
                    ``(B) transport the alien for transfer to Federal 
                custody; or
                    ``(C) notify the Department about the release of 
                the alien.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The analysis for such chapter is amended 
by adding at the end the following:

``171. Limitation on use of grant funds in sanctuary jurisdiction.''.
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