Lady Liberty Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-3376
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11]
Introduced: 2019-06-20
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Latest action: action_date: 2019-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-06-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Lady Liberty Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill sets a floor of 110,000 for the maximum number of refugees who may be admitted into the United States each fiscal year. Under current law, the President sets the annual cap on refugee admissions at the beginning of each fiscal year. (The cap for FY2020 is 18,000, and the cap for FY2019 was 30,000.)</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3376 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 20, 2019 Mr. Connolly (for himself, Ms. Barragán , Mr. Beyer , Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Mr. Cicilline , Ms. Clarke of New York , Mr. Cohen , Mr. Correa , Mr. Cummings , Ms. DeLauro , Mr. Deutch , Mrs. Dingell , Ms. Escobar , Ms. Eshoo , Mr. Espaillat , Mr. Foster , Mr. Gallego , Mr. García of Illinois , Mr. Green of Texas , Ms. Haaland , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Hill of California , Ms. Jackson Lee , Ms. Jayapal , Ms. Johnson of Texas , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Keating , Mr. Khanna , Mr. Larsen of Washington , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Ted Lieu of California , Mr. Levin of Michigan , Mr. Luján , Mr. Malinowski , Ms. McCollum , Mr. McGovern , Mr. Meeks , Ms. Moore , Mr. Moulton , Ms. Mucarsel-Powell , Ms. Norton , Ms. Omar , Mr. Pallone , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Pascrell , Mr. Payne , Mr. Peters , Ms. Pingree , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Raskin , Miss Rice of New York , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. Rush , Mr. Ryan , Ms. Sánchez , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Scott of Virginia , Mr. Serrano , Mr. Sires , Mr. Smith of Washington , Ms. Shalala , Mr. Soto , Mr. Takano , Ms. Tlaib , Mr. Vargas , Mr. Veasey , Ms. Velázquez , Ms. Wasserman Schultz , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Welch , and Ms. Wilson of Florida ) 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 2019 . 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 2020, such number may not be less than 110,000 .