Lady Liberty Act of 2018

Bill: 115-hr-6909
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2018-09-26
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Latest action: action_date: 2018-09-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-09-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Lady Liberty Act of 2018</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the President to set the number of post-FY2018 refugee admissions at not less than 110,000 persons per fiscal year.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6909 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 26, 2018 Mr. Connolly (for himself, Ms. Barragán , Ms. Bass , Mr. Beyer , Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Cicilline , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Correa , Ms. Clarke of New York , Ms. DeLauro , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Deutch , Mrs. Dingell , Mr. Ellison , Mr. Espaillat , Mr. Foster , Mr. Gallego , Mr. Al Green of Texas , Mr. Gutiérrez , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Jackson Lee , Ms. Jayapal , Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Keating , Mr. Khanna , Ms. Lee , Mr. Ted Lieu of California , Mr. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico , Ms. McCollum , Mr. McEachin , Mr. McGovern , Mr. Meeks , Ms. Moore , Ms. Norton , Mr. Pallone , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Pascrell , Mr. Payne , Mr. Peters , Ms. Pingree , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Raskin , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. Rush , Mr. Ryan of Ohio , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Scott of Virginia , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Sires , Mr. Smith of Washington , Mr. Soto , Mr. Vargas , Mr. Veasey , Mr. Visclosky , Ms. Wasserman Schultz , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Welch , Ms. Wilson of Florida , and Mr. Cummings ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a minimum number of refugees who may be admitted in any fiscal year after fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Lady Liberty Act of 2018 . 2. Minimum number of refugees to be admitted Section 207(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1157(a) ) is amended by inserting after in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1982 shall be such number as the President determines, the following: except that in any fiscal year after fiscal year 2018, such number may not be less than 110,000 .