No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-5814
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2020-02-07
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Department of Homeland Security

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2020-03-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill repeals the provision generally providing for the deportability of an alien who becomes a public charge (an alien who has received certain public benefits for a certain amount of time) within five years of entering the United States. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5814 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 7, 2020 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Garcia of Texas , Mr. Meeks , Ms. Velázquez , Mr. Espaillat , Ms. Ocasio-Cortez , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Cox of California , Ms. Omar , Ms. Clarke of New York , Mr. McGovern , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Costa , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Ms. DelBene , Mr. Lowenthal , and Mr. Blumenauer ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the public charge ground of deportability, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019 . 2. Repeal of public charge ground of deportability Section 237(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1227(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting before the period at the end the following: , except in the case of an alien who is inadmissible under section 212(a)(4) ; and (2) by repealing paragraph (5).