Empowering Immigration Courts Act

Bill: 116-hr-5708
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8]
Introduced: 2020-01-29
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Judges

Judicial procedure and administration
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-29
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-29
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Empowering Immigration Courts Act</b></p> <p>This bill authorizes immigration judges to impose a fine for contempt in accordance with the criminal code. Currently, the Department of Justice is authorized to prescribe regulations providing immigration judges with such authority, but has not done so. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5708 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 29, 2020 Mr. Gallagher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify the contempt authority of immigration judges, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Empowering Immigration Courts Act . 2. Contempt authority of immigration judges Section 240(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1229a(b)(1) ) is amended by striking (under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General) to sanction by civil money penalty any action (or inaction) in contempt of the judge's proper exercise of authority under this Act and inserting to sanction by fine contempt of its authority in accordance with section 401 of title 18, United States Code .