Title: MAPLE Act of 2019
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Maintaining Appropriate Protections for Legal Entry Act of 2019 or the MAPLE Act of 2019
This bill removes various marijuana-related acts from the list of crimes that would make an alien inadmissible for entry into the United States or deportable, if such acts were lawful in the jurisdiction where they occurred.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2703 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2703

      To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify the 
  admissibility and deportability of aliens acting in accordance with 
       State and foreign marijuana laws, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2019

Mr. Blumenauer 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 clarify the 
  admissibility and deportability of aliens acting in accordance with 
       State and foreign marijuana laws, 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 ``Maintaining Appropriate Protections 
for Legal Entry Act of 2019'' or the ``MAPLE Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ADMISSIBILITY OF ALIENS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE AND 
              FOREIGN MARIJUANA LAWS.

    Section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(i)(II), by inserting after the 
        comma at the end the following: ``except in the case of a law 
        or regulation of the United States related to marijuana, which 
        conduct was lawful in the State, Indian Tribe, or foreign 
        country in which the conduct occurred, or a law or regulation 
        of a State, Indian Tribe, or foreign country related to 
        marijuana, which conduct was subsequently made lawful under the 
        law or regulation of such jurisdiction,''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C)(i), by inserting after ``endeavored 
        to do so'' the following: ``, except with respect to 
        trafficking, sale, or distribution of marijuana if the conduct 
        was lawful or subsequently made lawful in the State, Indian 
        Tribe, or foreign country in which it occurred''.

SEC. 3. DEPORTABILITY OF ALIENS ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE AND 
              FOREIGN MARIJUANA LAWS.

    Section 237(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1227(a)(2)(B)(i)) is amended by inserting after ``marijuana'' 
the following: ``, an offense under a law or regulation of the United 
States related to marijuana, which conduct was lawful in the State, 
Indian Tribe, or foreign country in which the conduct occurred, or an 
offense under a law or regulation of a State, Indian Tribe, or foreign 
country related to marijuana, which conduct was subsequently made 
lawful under the law or regulation of such jurisdiction''.

SEC. 4. AGGRAVATED FELONY.

    Section 101(a)(43)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(B)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon at 
the end the following: ``, except with respect to trafficking, sale, or 
distribution of marijuana if the conduct was lawful or subsequently 
made lawful in the State, Indian Tribe, or foreign country in which it 
occurred''.
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