Title: Our Communities, Our Choices Act of 2018
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Our Communities, Our Choices Act of 2018
This bill amends the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require consultation with state and local elected officials and a public hearing before awarding grants or contracts for housing unaccompanied alien children in a facility that is not on federal property.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6553 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6553

    To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
  Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require consultation with State and 
local elected officials and a public hearing before awarding grants or 
   contracts for housing facilities for unaccompanied alien children.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2018

   Mr. Olson (for himself, Mr. Smith of Texas, and Mr. Poe of Texas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
  Reauthorization Act of 2008 to require consultation with State and 
local elected officials and a public hearing before awarding grants or 
   contracts for housing facilities for unaccompanied alien children.

    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 ``Our Communities, Our Choices Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING CONSULTATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS 
              AND A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE AWARDING GRANTS OR CONTRACTS 
              FOR HOUSING FACILITIES FOR UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN.

    Section 235(i) of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232(i)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Before awarding any grant or 
contract under this subsection that provide for housing of 
unaccompanied alien children in a facility that is not on property of 
the Federal Government, the Secretary shall--
            ``(1) consult with State and local elected officials 
        regarding the location of the facility as well as the duration 
        of the award and the safety, security, and funding of the 
        facility; and
            ``(2) conduct a public hearing, no earlier than 90 days 
        after the announcement of a potential location for such 
        facility, for which--
                    ``(A) advance public notice has been provided, in 
                mediums available for general circulation in the 
                proposed jurisdiction, at least 10 days before the date 
                of the hearing; and
                    ``(B) a representative of the Department of Health 
                and Human Services is in attendance in an official 
                capacity for the purpose of receiving public 
                comments.''.
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