BE REAL Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-3534
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2003-11-19 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Air force
Alien labor
Aliens
Amnesties
Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Arrest
Bank accounts
Border patrols
Boundaries
Civil actions and liability
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Counterfeiting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Deportation
Detention of persons
Directories
Dismissal of employees
Driver licenses
EBB Terrorism
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Embassies
Employee benefit plans
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee selection
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Families
Federal aid programs
Federal employees
Federal law enforcement officers
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Foreign service
Forgery
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Injunctions
International Affairs
Internet
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Law
Layoffs
Married people
Military civic action
Passports
Physical examinations
Prisons
Public records
Recruiting of employees
Residence requirements
Right of asylum
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Surety and fidelity
Surveys
Tax returns
Taxation
Telephone
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Travel
Travel costs
Unemployment
User charges
Visas
Vital statistics
Wages
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: 
Border Enforcement and Revolving Employment to Assist Laborers Act of 2003 or the BE REAL Act of 2003 - Amends the Posse Comitatus Act to authorize the use of the U.S. military for border enforcement.
 
Suspends the visa waiver program until such time as the Secretary of Homeland Security certifies full implementation of an automated entry-exit system and the use of biometric machine readers and passports.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to establish criminal penalties for unlawful presence. Enhances civil and criminal penalties for document fraud and false statements of citizenship.
 
Amends Federal law concerning passports to require fingerprinting and background checks of applicants for U.S. passports.
 
Establishes a visa term compliance bond. 
 
Requires the development and use of more secure Social Security cards and birth certificates.
 
Amends the INA to permit employers who seek work eligibility verification for new hires within three days after the date of hire to claim an affirmative defense to employer sanctions. Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to create an electronic employment verification system. Exempts from liability those who rely on the verification system in good faith.
 
Establishes a new guest worker program that replaces the current H nonimmigrant visa category with a single H visa covering all aliens coming to the United States temporarily to perform skilled or unskilled work, where U.S. workers are not available. Requires that the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency make specified certifications to Congress as a prerequisite to implementation of the program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-06-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4754-4758)
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2004-03-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-12-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-12-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-19
text: Introduced in House