Title: Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Kerrie Orozco First Responders Family Support Act
This bill establishes that a surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen public safety officer may be naturalized at the time of the officer's death if the death was caused by an injury incurred or aggravated by the officer's employment. The individual may be naturalized upon compliance with the relevant immigration law requirements, except that no prior residence or specified U.S. physical presence shall be required. A surviving spouse seeking naturalization must have been living in marital union with the officer at the time of death.
Public safety officers include law enforcement officers, firefighters, or chaplains, and certain Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees engaged in hazardous duties.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2378 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2378

      To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for 
 naturalization processes for the immediate relatives of public safety 
    officers who die as a result of their employment, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2019

Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mr. Fortenberry, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, 
 Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Panetta, and Mrs. Demings) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for 
 naturalization processes for the immediate relatives of public safety 
    officers who die as a result of their employment, 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 ``Kerrie Orozco First Responders 
Family Support Act''.

SEC. 2. NATURALIZATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELATIVES OF PUBLIC SAFETY 
              OFFICERS.

    Section 319 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Immediate Relatives of Public Safety Officers.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any person who is the surviving spouse, 
        child, or parent of a United States citizen, whose citizen 
        spouse, parent, or child dies as a result of injury or disease 
        incurred in or aggravated by employment as a public safety 
        officer, and who, in the case of a surviving spouse, was living 
        in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of his 
        death, may be naturalized upon compliance with all the 
        requirements of this title, except that no prior residence or 
        specified physical presence within the United States shall be 
        required.
            ``(2) Definition.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        term `public safety officer' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
        of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284).''.
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