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

Summary:
American Dream Employment Act of 2021
This bill establishes that, for the purposes of eligibility to be an officer or employee of an office of Congress, an individual shall be treated as a U.S. citizen if that individual has (1) employment authorization under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, (2) employment authorization under a grant of 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]
[H.R. 2029 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2029

 To provide that individuals who are beneficiaries of deferred action, 
  deferred enforced departure, or temporary protected status shall be 
    treated in the same manner as citizens of the United States for 
purposes of determining the eligibility of such individuals to serve as 
                   officers or employees of Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2021

 Mrs. Kirkpatrick (for herself, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Bass, Mr. Beyer, Ms. 
 Bonamici, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Carson, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. 
  Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cooper, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
Gallego, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Huffman, 
 Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Kind, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of Michigan, 
Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. McGovern, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Meeks, Ms. 
Meng, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Norton, Ms. Omar, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Pressley, Mr. 
 Price of North Carolina, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. 
Stanton, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Vargas, 
Mr. Vela, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mrs. Napolitano, 
 Mr. Jones, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Titus, Mr. 
Raskin, Mr. Auchincloss, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that individuals who are beneficiaries of deferred action, 
  deferred enforced departure, or temporary protected status shall be 
    treated in the same manner as citizens of the United States for 
purposes of determining the eligibility of such individuals to serve as 
                   officers or employees of Congress.

    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. ELIGIBILITY OF BENEFICIARIES OF DEFERRED ACTION OR TEMPORARY 
              PROTECTED STATUS FOR EMPLOYMENT IN CONGRESS.

    (a) Treatment in Same Manner as Citizens of United States.--For 
purposes of determining the eligibility of an individual described in 
subsection (b) to serve as an officer or employee of an office of 
Congress, the individual shall be treated in the same manner as an 
individual who is a citizen of the United States.
    (b) Individuals Described.--An individual described in this 
subsection is an individual--
            (1) who 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;
            (2) whose employment is authorized pursuant to a grant of 
        deferred enforced departure; or
            (3) who has temporary protected status under section 244 of 
        the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S. 1254a).
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall apply with respect to 
fiscal year 2022 and each succeeding fiscal year.
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