American Dream Employment Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-97
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Congressional officers and employees

Foreign labor

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>American Dream Employment Act of 2017</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 to permit the compensation of congressional employees who have been issued employment authorization documents under the Department of Homeland Security's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. </p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 97 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2017 Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016, 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the American Dream Employment Act of 2017 . 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, 2016 ( Public Law 114–113 ) 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: .