Title: American Dream Employment Act of 2021
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
American Dream Employment Act of 2021
This bill permits the compensation of congressional employees who hold a current employment authorization document that was issued pursuant to a grant of (1) deferred action, including under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program; (2) deferred enforced departure; or (3) temporary protected status. (Generally, these programs and statuses allow eligible aliens to remain and work in the United States.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 650 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 650

 To enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the United 
 States whose employment is authorized pursuant to a grant of deferred 
  action, deferred enforced departure, or temporary protected status.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 2021

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Warren, Mr. Markey, Mr. 
 Blumenthal, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Smith, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Merkley, Mr. 
   Booker, Ms. Rosen, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Menendez, Mr. 
  Wyden, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Warner, Mr. Sanders, and Ms. Klobuchar) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the United 
 States whose employment is authorized pursuant to a grant of deferred 
  action, deferred enforced departure, or temporary protected status.

    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 
2021''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE BENEFICIARIES OF DEFERRED 
              ACTION, DEFERRED ENFORCED DEPARTURE, OR TEMPORARY 
              PROTECTED STATUS AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID.

    Section 704 of title VII of division E of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2021 (Public Law 116-260) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``eligible; or'' and inserting 
        ``eligible;'';
            (2) by striking ``allegiance to the United States:'' and 
        inserting ``allegiance to the United States; or (5) is a person 
        who is employed by the House of Representatives or the Senate, 
        and holds a current employment authorization document that was 
        issued pursuant to a grant of deferred action, including 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, deferred enforced departure, or temporary 
        protected status under section 244 of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a):''.
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