USA Values Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-735
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2017-01-30
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Africa

Appropriations

Citizenship and naturalization

Department of Homeland Security

Due process and equal protection

Human rights

Immigration status and procedures

Iran

Iraq

Libya

Middle East

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Racial and ethnic relations

Refugees, asylum, displaced persons

Religion

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Somalia

Sudan

Syria

Travel and tourism

Visas and passports

Yemen
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Universal Security of American Values Act of 2017 or the USA Values Act of 2017</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits enforcement of any executive order that would be in direct violation of an existing executive order, public law, or fully executed regulatory agency process as it relates to: </p> <ul> <li>Fourth Amendment due process; </li> <li>Fourteenth Amendment protections of citizenship rights; </li> <li>the Immigration and Nationality Act; </li> <li> laws intended to protect the civil liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons lawfully admitted into the United States or natural born or naturalized U.S. citizens; or </li> <li>the impact on individuals based upon race, religion, ethnicity, place of birth or residence, gender, sexual orientation and identity, age, or statuses that pose no undue health threat to the general population. </li> </ul> <p>No amounts made available to any federal agency may be used to implement or enforce any of the policy changes set forth in Executive Order 13769, entitled &quot;Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.&quot; Among the order's major provisions are restrictions on the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from seven countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) and additional limitations on refugee admissions to the United States.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 735 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 2017 Ms. Jackson Lee (for herself and Mr. Raskin ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary , and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security , Foreign Affairs , and Intelligence (Permanent Select) , 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 A BILL To prohibit the enforcement of certain Executive orders.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Universal Security of American Values Act of 2017 or as the USA Values Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) The Constitution is the document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. (2) In a Nation of laws, not of men, no person, including the President of the United States, has the power to violate the Constitution of United States. (3) In a Nation whose symbol is the Statute of Liberty, which welcomes the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the Executive order issued Friday, January 26, 2017, entitled, Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States , is an affront to national values and is therefore, null and void, shall have no force and effect, and may not be implemented, administered, enforced, or carried out. 3. Prohibition No Executive order may be enforced that would be in direct violation of an existing Executive order, public law, or fully executed regulatory agency process as it relates to— (1) Fourth Amendment due process; (2) Fourteenth Amendment protections; (3) the Immigration and Nationality Act; (4) any laws that are intended to protect the civil liberties, civil rights, or human rights of persons lawfully admitted into the United States or natural born or naturalized citizens of the United States; or (5) impact on individuals based upon race, religion, ethnicity, place of birth, place of residence, gender, sexual orientation and identity, age, or statuses that pose no undue health threat to the general population. 4. No funds available No amounts (including fees) made available to the Secretary of Homeland Security, or to any other official of a Federal agency, by any Act for any fiscal year, may be used to implement, administer, enforce, or carry out (including through the issuance of any regulations) any of the policy changes set forth in the Executive order entitled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States (January 27, 2017).