Title: American Dream Employment Act of 2019
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
American Dream Employment Act of 2019
This bill permits the compensation of congressional employees who have been issued employment authorization documents under the Department of Homeland Security Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program.
The program enables many unlawfully present aliens who came to the United States as children to be granted deferred action (a type of relief from removal which does not confer immigration status) and work authorization.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 668 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 668

 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2018, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2019

    Mrs. Kirkpatrick (for herself, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. 
 O'Halleran, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Cisneros, Mr. 
Correa, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Omar, 
 Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Garcia of Texas, 
and Mr. Soto) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2018, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, 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 ``American Dream Employment Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE BENEFICIARIES OF DACA 
              AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID.

    Section 704 of title VII of division E of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115-141) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``eligible; or'' and inserting 
        ``eligible;''; and
            (2) by striking the semicolon after ``owes allegiance to 
        the United States'' and inserting the following: ``; or (5) is 
        a person who is employed by the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate, and has been issued an employment authorization 
        document under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
        Program of the Secretary of Homeland Security, established 
        pursuant to the memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security entitled `Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 
        Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as 
        Children', dated June 15, 2012:''.
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