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22 119THCONGRESS
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44 STSESSION H. R. 746
55 To limit eligibility for Federal benefits for certain immigrants, and for other
66 purposes.
77 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
88 JANUARY28, 2025
99 Mr. A
1010 RRINGTON(for himself and Mr. ROY) introduced the following bill; which
1111 was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to
1212 the Committees on Education and Workforce, Financial Services, Trans-
1313 portation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to
1414 be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
1515 ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
1616 concerned
1717 A BILL
1818 To limit eligibility for Federal benefits for certain
1919 immigrants, and for other purposes.
2020 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
2121 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
2222 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
2323 (a) S
2424 HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
2525 ‘‘America First Act’’. 5
2626 (b) T
2727 ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
2828 this Act is as follows: 7
2929 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
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3333 Sec. 2. Adjusting eligibility of certain non-citizens for Federal public benefits
3434 under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Rec-
3535 onciliation Act.
3636 Sec. 3. Verification of citizenship by Head Start agencies.
3737 Sec. 4. Eligibility for certain Federal health care benefits.
3838 Sec. 5. Housing.
3939 Sec. 6. Identification requirements for child tax credit and earned income tax
4040 credit; permanent extension of certain temporary rules for child
4141 tax credit.
4242 Sec. 7. Federal Emergency Management Agency prohibitions.
4343 Sec. 8. Eligibility for postsecondary financial assistance based on immigration
4444 status.
4545 Sec. 9. Reducing ESEA funding for sanctuary jurisdictions.
4646 Sec. 10. Limitation on refugee resettlement and other services for certain Hai-
4747 tian immigrants.
4848 Sec. 11. Prohibiting participation in Federal benefit programs until a satisfac-
4949 tory immigration status is verified.
5050 Sec. 12. Verification of citizenship for WIC and school meals.
5151 Sec. 13. Restrictions on use of Community Development Block Grant funds and
5252 Federal funding by tax-exempt organizations.
5353 Sec. 14. Implementing regulations and guidance.
5454 SEC. 2. ADJUSTING ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN NON-CITI-
5555 1
5656 ZENS FOR FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS 2
5757 UNDER THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND 3
5858 WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT. 4
5959 (a) N
6060 ARROWINGSCOPE OFFEDERALPUBLICBENE-5
6161 FITS FORWHICHNON-QUALIFIEDALIENSAREELIGIBLE 6
6262 U
6363 NDERPRWORA.—Section 401(b)(1) of the Personal 7
6464 Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 8
6565 of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611(b)(1)) is amended— 9
6666 (1) by striking subparagraphs (B), (D), and 10
6767 (E); and 11
6868 (2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-12
6969 paragraph (B). 13
7070 (b) N
7171 ARROWING THE DEFINITION OFQUALIFIED 14
7272 A
7373 LIENUNDERPRWORA.— 15
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7777 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 431(b) of the Per-1
7878 sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Rec-2
7979 onciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641(b)) is 3
8080 amended— 4
8181 (A) by striking paragraphs (2), (4), and 5
8282 (5); and 6
8383 (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (6), 7
8484 (7), and (8) as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and 8
8585 (5), respectively. 9
8686 (2) E
8787 XCLUSION OF INDIVIDUALS PAROLED INTO 10
8888 THE UNITED STATES FOR LESS THAN 1 YEAR .—Sec-11
8989 tion 411(a) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 12
9090 Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 13
9191 1621(a)) is amended— 14
9292 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking the 15
9393 comma at the end and inserting ‘‘, or’’; 16
9494 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 17
9595 the end; and 18
9696 (C) by striking paragraph (3). 19
9797 (3) C
9898 ONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 20
9999 (A) Section 402(a)(2)(A) of the Personal 21
100100 Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcili-22
101101 ation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)(A)) is 23
102102 amended— 24
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106106 (i) in the subparagraph heading, by 1
107107 striking ‘‘
108108 AND ASYLEES’’; 2
109109 (ii) by striking clauses (ii) and (iii); 3
110110 and 4
111111 (iii) by redesignating clauses (iv) and 5
112112 (v) as clauses (ii) and (iii), respectively. 6
113113 (B) Section 403(b)(1) of the Personal Re-7
114114 sponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconcili-8
115115 ation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1613(b)(1)) is 9
116116 amended— 10
117117 (i) in the paragraph heading, by strik-11
118118 ing ‘‘
119119 AND ASYLEES’’; 12
120120 (ii) by striking subparagraphs (B) and 13
121121 (C); and 14
122122 (iii) by redesignating subparagraphs 15
123123 (D) and (E) as subparagraphs (B) and 16
124124 (C), respectively. 17
125125 (C) Section 412 of the Personal Responsi-18
126126 bility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 19
127127 of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1622) is amended— 20
128128 (i) in subsection (a)— 21
129129 (I) by striking ‘‘, a non-22
130130 immigrant’’ and inserting ‘‘or a non-23
131131 immigrant’’; and 24
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135135 (II) by striking ‘‘, or an alien 1
136136 who is paroled into the United States 2
137137 under section 212(d)(5) of such Act 3
138138 for less than one year’’; and 4
139139 (ii) in subsection (b)(1)— 5
140140 (I) in the paragraph heading, by 6
141141 striking ‘‘
142142 AND ASYLEES’’; 7
143143 (II) by striking subparagraphs 8
144144 (B) and (C); and 9
145145 (III) by redesignating subpara-10
146146 graphs (D) and (E) as subparagraphs 11
147147 (B) and (C), respectively. 12
148148 SEC. 3. VERIFICATION OF CITIZENSHIP BY HEAD START 13
149149 AGENCIES. 14
150150 (a) I
151151 NGENERAL.—Section 645 of the Head Start 15
152152 Act (42 U.S.C. 9840) is amended by adding at the end 16
153153 the following: 17
154154 ‘‘(e) A child shall be considered ineligible for a Head 18
155155 Start program if— 19
156156 ‘‘(1) the child is not— 20
157157 ‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; or 21
158158 ‘‘(B) an alien who is admitted to the 22
159159 United States as a refugee under section 207 of 23
160160 the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 24
161161 1157); and 25
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165165 ‘‘(2) a parent (including a guardian) of the 1
166166 child is— 2
167167 ‘‘(A) an alien (as defined in section 101(a) 3
168168 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 4
169169 U.S.C. 1101(a)) who is unlawfully present in 5
170170 the United States; 6
171171 ‘‘(B) an alien granted parole under section 7
172172 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration 8
173173 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5), 9
174174 1126(a)(2)(B)); 10
175175 ‘‘(C) an alien granted temporary protected 11
176176 status under section 244 of the Immigration 12
177177 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a); 13
178178 ‘‘(D) an alien granted asylum under sec-14
179179 tion 208 of the Immigration and Nationality 15
180180 Act (8 U.S.C. 1158); 16
181181 ‘‘(E) an alien granted deferred action or 17
182182 deferred enforced departure, including pursuant 18
183183 to the memorandum of the Department of 19
184184 Homeland Security entitled ‘Exercising Pros-20
185185 ecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals 21
186186 Who Came to the United States as Children’ 22
187187 issued on June 15, 2012; or 23
188188 ‘‘(F) an alien granted withholding of re-24
189189 moval under section 241(b)(3) of the Immigra-25
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193193 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1
194194 1231(b)(3)).’’. 2
195195 (b) C
196196 ONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 3
197197 640(a)(5)(B)(i) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 9835(a)(5)(B)(i)) 4
198198 is amended by striking ‘‘immigrant, refugee,’’ and insert-5
199199 ing ‘‘refugee’’. 6
200200 SEC. 4. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL HEALTH CARE 7
201201 BENEFITS. 8
202202 (a) L
203203 IMITINGMEDICAIDCOVERAGE OFPAROLEES 9
204204 ANDTPS ANDDACA RECIPIENTS.—Section 1903(v) of 10
205205 the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(v)) is amended 11
206206 by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 12
207207 ‘‘(5) For purposes of paragraph (1), an alien shall 13
208208 not be considered to be lawfully admitted for permanent 14
209209 residence or otherwise permanently residing in the United 15
210210 States under color of law if the alien is— 16
211211 ‘‘(A) granted parole under section 212(d)(5) or 17
212212 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality 18
213213 Act; 19
214214 ‘‘(B) granted deferred action or deferred en-20
215215 forced departure, including pursuant to the memo-21
216216 randum of the Department of Homeland Security 22
217217 entitled ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 23
218218 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United 24
219219 States as Children’ issued on June 15, 2012; 25
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223223 ‘‘(C) granted asylum under section 208 of the 1
224224 Immigration and Nationality Act; 2
225225 ‘‘(D) granted temporary protected status under 3
226226 section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; 4
227227 or 5
228228 ‘‘(E) granted withholding of removal under sec-6
229229 tion 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality 7
230230 Act.’’. 8
231231 (b) L
232232 IMITINGMEDICARECOVERAGE OFPAROLEES 9
233233 ANDTPS ANDDACA RECIPIENTS.—Title XVIII of the 10
234234 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.) is amended 11
235235 by adding at the end the following new section: 12
236236 ‘‘SEC. 1899C. LIMITING MEDICARE COVERAGE OF PAROL-13
237237 EES AND TPS AND DACA RECIPIENTS. 14
238238 ‘‘(a) I
239239 NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 226, 15
240240 section 226A, section 1818(a), section 1836(a), or any 16
241241 other provision of this title, in no case may an applicable 17
242242 individual (as defined in subsection (b)) be entitled to, or 18
243243 enrolled for, benefits under this title. 19
244244 ‘‘(b) A
245245 PPLICABLEINDIVIDUALDEFINED.—In this 20
246246 section, the term ‘applicable individual’ means an alien— 21
247247 ‘‘(1) granted parole under section 212(d)(5) or 22
248248 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality 23
249249 Act; 24
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253253 ‘‘(2) granted deferred action or deferred en-1
254254 forced departure, including pursuant to the memo-2
255255 randum of the Department of Homeland Security 3
256256 entitled ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 4
257257 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United 5
258258 States as Children’ issued on June 15, 2012; 6
259259 ‘‘(3) granted asylum under section 208 of the 7
260260 Immigration and Nationality Act; 8
261261 ‘‘(4) granted temporary protected status under 9
262262 section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; 10
263263 or 11
264264 ‘‘(5) granted withholding of removal under sec-12
265265 tion 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality 13
266266 Act.’’. 14
267267 (c) E
268268 LIGIBILITY FORCREDIT FORCOVERAGEUNDER 15
269269 AQUALIFIEDHEALTHPLAN.— 16
270270 (1) I
271271 N GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B) of section 17
272272 36B(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 18
273273 amended by striking ‘‘If’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as 19
274274 provided in subparagraph (F), if’’. 20
275275 (2) D
276276 ISQUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS .—Paragraph 21
277277 (1) of section 36B(c) of the Internal Revenue Code 22
278278 of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the fol-23
279279 lowing new subparagraph: 24
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283283 ‘‘(F) DISQUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS .—The 1
284284 following shall not be treated as an applicable 2
285285 taxpayer: 3
286286 ‘‘(i) Any alien granted asylum under 4
287287 section 208 of the Immigration and Na-5
288288 tionality Act. 6
289289 ‘‘(ii) Any alien granted parole under 7
290290 section 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the 8
291291 Immigration and Nationality Act. 9
292292 ‘‘(iii) Any alien granted temporary 10
293293 protected status under section 244 of the 11
294294 Immigration and Nationality Act. 12
295295 ‘‘(iv) Any alien granted deferred ac-13
296296 tion or deferred enforced departure, includ-14
297297 ing pursuant to the memorandum of the 15
298298 Department of Homeland Security entitled 16
299299 ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 17
300300 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the 18
301301 United States as Children’ issued on June 19
302302 15, 2012. 20
303303 ‘‘(v) Any alien granted withholding of 21
304304 removal under section 241(b)(3) of the Im-22
305305 migration and Nationality Act.’’. 23
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309309 (3) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS .—Subsection 1
310310 (e) of section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code of 2
311311 1986 is amended— 3
312312 (A) by striking ‘‘I
313313 NDIVIDUALS’’ in the 4
314314 heading and inserting ‘‘D
315315 ISQUALIFIEDINDIVID-5
316316 UALS ANDINDIVIDUALS’’, and 6
317317 (B) by striking ‘‘are individuals who are 7
318318 not lawfully present’’ in paragraph (1) and in-8
319319 serting ‘‘are individuals described in subsection 9
320320 (c)(1)(F) or are not lawfully present’’. 10
321321 (4) R
322322 EQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ES -11
323323 SENTIAL COVERAGE .—Paragraph (3) of section 12
324324 5000A(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 13
325325 amended— 14
326326 (A) by striking ‘‘I
327327 NDIVIDUALS’’ in the 15
328328 heading and inserting ‘‘D
329329 ISQUALIFIED INDIVID-16
330330 UALS AND INDIVIDUALS’’, and 17
331331 (B) by inserting ‘‘, or is an individual de-18
332332 scribed in section 36B(c)(1)(F)’’ before the pe-19
333333 riod at the end. 20
334334 (5) E
335335 FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 21
336336 by this subsection shall apply to taxable years begin-22
337337 ning after the date of the enactment of this Act. 23
338338 (d) E
339339 LIGIBILITY FORCOST-SHARINGREDUCTIONS 24
340340 ANDSUBSIDIES.— 25
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344344 (1) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 1
345345 1402 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 2
346346 Act (42 U.S.C. 18071) is amended by inserting ‘‘, 3
347347 and not described in section 36B(c)(1)(F) of such 4
348348 Code’’ after ‘‘the Internal Revenue Code of 1986’’. 5
349349 (2) C
350350 ONFORMING AMENDMENTS .—Subsection 6
351351 (e) of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Af-7
352352 fordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18071) is amended— 8
353353 (A) by striking ‘‘I
354354 NDIVIDUALS’’ in the 9
355355 heading and inserting ‘‘D
356356 ISQUALIFIEDINDIVID-10
357357 UALS ANDINDIVIDUALS’’, and 11
358358 (B) by striking ‘‘is not lawfully present’’ in 12
359359 paragraph (1) and inserting ‘‘is an individual 13
360360 described in section 36B(c)(1)(F) of the Inter-14
361361 nal Revenue Code of 1986 or is not lawfully 15
362362 present’’. 16
363363 (3) P
364364 ROCEDURES.—Paragraph (1) of section 17
365365 1411(a) of the Patient Protection and Affordable 18
366366 Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18081(a)) is amended by in-19
367367 serting ‘‘, and is not a disqualified individual under 20
368368 section 36B(c)(1)(F) of such Code’’ before the semi-21
369369 colon at the end. 22
370370 (4) F
371371 EDERAL PAYMENTS .—Subsection (d) of 23
372372 section 1412 of the Patient Protection and Afford-24
373373 able Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18082) is amended— 25
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377377 (A) by striking ‘‘INDIVIDUALS’’ in the 1
378378 heading and inserting ‘‘D
379379 ISQUALIFIEDINDIVID-2
380380 UALS ORINDIVIDUALS’’, and 3
381381 (B) by striking ‘‘are not lawfully present’’ 4
382382 in paragraph (1) and inserting ‘‘are described 5
383383 in section 36B(c)(1)(F) of the Internal Revenue 6
384384 Code of 1986 or are not lawfully present’’. 7
385385 (5) S
386386 TATE BASIC HEALTH PROGRAMS .—Para-8
387387 graph (1) of section 1331(e) of the Patient Protec-9
388388 tion and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18051) is 10
389389 amended by inserting ‘‘, or any individual who is de-11
390390 scribed in section 36B(c)(1)(F) of the Internal Rev-12
391391 enue Code of 1986’’ before the period at the end. 13
392392 (6) Q
393393 UALIFIED INDIVIDUALS.—Paragraph (3) 14
394394 of section 1312(f) of the Patient Protection and Af-15
395395 fordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(f)) is amend-16
396396 ed— 17
397397 (A) by striking ‘‘
398398 LAWFUL’’ in the heading 18
399399 and inserting ‘‘
400400 CERTAIN LAWFUL’’, and 19
401401 (B) by inserting ‘‘, or is an individual de-20
402402 scribed in section 36B(c)(1)(F) of the Internal 21
403403 Revenue Code of 1986’’ after ‘‘lawfully present 22
404404 in the United States’’. 23
405405 (7) E
406406 FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 24
407407 by this subsection shall apply to years, plan years, 25
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411411 and taxable years, as applicable, beginning after the 1
412412 date of the enactment of this Act. 2
413413 (e) P
414414 ROHIBITION ONFEDERALFUNDING FORFED-3
415415 ERALLYQUALIFIEDHEALTHCENTERSTHATPROVIDE 4
416416 S
417417 ERVICES TOINDIVIDUALSWHOARENOTLAWFULLY 5
418418 P
419419 RESENT INUNITEDSTATES.—A Federally qualified 6
420420 health center (as defined in section 1861(aa) of the Social 7
421421 Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(aa))) that provides services 8
422422 (other than services to treat an emergency medical condi-9
423423 tion, as defined in section 1903(v)(3) of the Social Secu-10
424424 rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(v)(3))) to individuals who are 11
425425 not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligi-12
426426 ble for— 13
427427 (1) payment under— 14
428428 (A) the Medicare program under title 15
429429 XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 16
430430 1395 et seq.); 17
431431 (B) the Medicaid program under title XIX 18
432432 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.); or 19
433433 (C) the Children’s Health Insurance Pro-20
434434 gram under title XXI of such Act (42 U.S.C. 21
435435 1397aa et seq.); 22
436436 (2) grant or any other funding under the Public 23
437437 Health Service Act, including a grant under section 24
438438 330 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 254b); or 25
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442442 (3) any other Federal funding. 1
443443 SEC. 5. HOUSING. 2
444444 (a) R
445445 ESTRICTIONS ON USE OFASSISTEDHOUS-3
446446 ING.—Section 214 of the Housing and Community Devel-4
447447 opment Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) is amended— 5
448448 (1) in subsection (a)— 6
449449 (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or pur-7
450450 suant to the granting of asylum (which has not 8
451451 been terminated) under section 208 of such Act 9
452452 (8 U.S.C. 1158)’’; 10
453453 (B) by striking paragraphs (4) and (5); 11
454454 and 12
455455 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and 13
456456 (7) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; 14
457457 (2) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (2) 15
458458 and inserting the following: 16
459459 ‘‘(2) The Secretary shall not provide financial assist-17
460460 ance to a family unless the eligibility of each member of 18
461461 the family has been affirmatively established under the 19
462462 program of financial assistance and under this section.’’; 20
463463 (3) in subsection (c)(1)— 21
464464 (A) by striking ‘‘shall take one of the fol-22
465465 lowing actions’’ and all that follows through 23
466466 ‘‘Defer the termination’’ and inserting ‘‘shall 24
467467 defer the termination’’; 25
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471471 (B) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ before ‘‘If, fol-1
472472 lowing completion’’; 2
473473 (C) by redesignating clauses (ii) and (iii) 3
474474 as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively, and 4
475475 moving the margins 2 ems to the left; 5
476476 (D) in subparagraph (B), as so redesig-6
477477 nated, by striking ‘‘clause (iii), any deferral 7
478478 under this subparagraph’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-8
479479 paragraph (C), any deferral under this para-9
480480 graph’’; and 10
481481 (E) in subparagraph (C), as so redesig-11
482482 nated— 12
483483 (i) by striking ‘‘clause (ii)’’ and in-13
484484 serting ‘‘subparagraph (B)’’; and 14
485485 (ii) by striking ‘‘or an individual seek-15
486486 ing asylum under section 208 of that Act’’; 16
487487 (4) in subsection (i)— 17
488488 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘at least 18
489489 the individual or one family member’’ and in-19
490490 serting ‘‘the individual or each family member’’; 20
491491 (B) in paragraph (2)— 21
492492 (i) by striking ‘‘United States Hous-22
493493 ing Act of 1937)—’’ and all that follows 23
494494 through ‘‘in carrying out subsection (d)’’ 24
495495 and inserting ‘‘United States Housing Act 25
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499499 of 1937), in carrying out subsection (d)’’; 1
500500 and 2
501501 (ii) by redesignating clauses (i), (ii), 3
502502 and (iii) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and 4
503503 (C), respectively, and adjusting the mar-5
504504 gins accordingly; and 6
505505 (5) by adding at the end the following: 7
506506 ‘‘(j) P
507507 ROHIBITION ONELIGIBILITYGUIDELINES.— 8
508508 The applicable Secretary shall not issue any guidelines re-9
509509 lating to eligibility for financial assistance under this sec-10
510510 tion.’’. 11
511511 (b) S
512512 INGLEFAMILYHOUSINGGUARANTEEDLOAN 12
513513 P
514514 ROGRAM.—Section 502 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 13
515515 U.S.C. 1472) is amended by adding at the end the fol-14
516516 lowing: 15
517517 ‘‘(j) E
518518 LIGIBILITY.— 16
519519 ‘‘(1) I
520520 N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make a 17
521521 loan under this section only to— 18
522522 ‘‘(A) a citizen of the United States; or 19
523523 ‘‘(B) an occupant or resident of a housing 20
524524 unit that does not include— 21
525525 ‘‘(i) any alien (as defined in section 22
526526 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 23
527527 Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a))) who is unlawfully 24
528528 present in the United States; 25
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532532 ‘‘(ii) any alien granted asylum under 1
533533 section 208 of the Immigration and Na-2
534534 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158); 3
535535 ‘‘(iii) any alien granted parole under 4
536536 section 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the 5
537537 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 6
538538 1182(d)(5), 1126(a)(2)(B)); 7
539539 ‘‘(iv) any alien granted temporary 8
540540 protected status under section 244 of the 9
541541 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 10
542542 1254a); 11
543543 ‘‘(v) any alien granted deferred action 12
544544 or deferred enforced departure, including 13
545545 pursuant to the memorandum of the De-14
546546 partment of Homeland Security entitled 15
547547 ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 16
548548 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the 17
549549 United States as Children’ issued on June 18
550550 15, 2012; and 19
551551 ‘‘(vi) any alien granted withholding of 20
552552 removal under section 241(b)(3) of the Im-21
553553 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 22
554554 1231(b)(3)). 23
555555 ‘‘(2) P
556556 ROHIBITION ON ELIGIBILITY GUIDE -24
557557 LINES.—The Secretary shall not issue any guidelines 25
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561561 relating to eligibility under paragraph (1) for a loan 1
562562 under this section.’’. 2
563563 (c) R
564564 EMOVAL OFATTORNEYGENERALDISCRETION 3
565565 TOEXEMPTHOUSINGPROGRAMSFROMPRWORA.— 4
566566 Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-5
567567 tunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611 et seq.) 6
568568 is amended— 7
569569 (1) in section 401(b)(1)(D) (8 U.S.C. 8
570570 1611(b)(1)(D)), by striking ‘‘, crisis counseling and 9
571571 intervention, and short-term shelter)’’ and inserting 10
572572 ‘‘and crisis counseling and intervention), excluding 11
573573 housing programs, services, or assistance,’’; and 12
574574 (2) in section 411(b)(4) (8 U.S.C. 1621(b)(4)), 13
575575 by striking ‘‘, crisis counseling and intervention, and 14
576576 short-term shelter)’’ and inserting ‘‘and crisis coun-15
577577 seling and intervention), excluding housing pro-16
578578 grams, services, or assistance,’’ 17
579579 (d) L
580580 OW-INCOMEHOUSINGCREDITELIGIBILITY.— 18
581581 (1) I
582582 N GENERAL.—Paragraph (3) of section 19
583583 42(i) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 20
584584 amended by adding at the end the following new 21
585585 subparagraph: 22
586586 ‘‘(E) D
587587 ISQUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS.— 23
588588 ‘‘(i) I
589589 N GENERAL.—A unit shall not 24
590590 be treated as a low-income unit if such 25
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594594 unit is occupied by any disqualified indi-1
595595 vidual. 2
596596 ‘‘(ii) D
597597 ISQUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL .— 3
598598 The term ‘disqualified individual’ means— 4
599599 ‘‘(I) any alien (as defined in sec-5
600600 tion 101(a) of the Immigration and 6
601601 Nationality Act) who is unlawfully 7
602602 present in the United States, 8
603603 ‘‘(II) any alien granted asylum 9
604604 under section 208 of the Immigration 10
605605 and Nationality Act, 11
606606 ‘‘(III) any alien granted parole 12
607607 under section 212(d)(5) or 13
608608 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration and 14
609609 Nationality Act, 15
610610 ‘‘(IV) any alien granted tem-16
611611 porary protected status under section 17
612612 244 of the Immigration and Nation-18
613613 ality Act, 19
614614 ‘‘(V) any alien granted deferred 20
615615 action or deferred enforced departure, 21
616616 including pursuant to the memo-22
617617 randum of the Department of Home-23
618618 land Security entitled ‘Exercising 24
619619 Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect 25
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623623 to Individuals Who Came to the 1
624624 United States as Children’ issued on 2
625625 June 15, 2012, and 3
626626 ‘‘(VI) any alien granted with-4
627627 holding of removal under section 5
628628 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Na-6
629629 tionality Act.’’. 7
630630 (2) E
631631 FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 8
632632 by this subsection shall apply to all determinations 9
633633 made after the date of the enactment of this Act. 10
634634 SEC. 6. IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD TAX 11
635635 CREDIT AND EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT; 12
636636 PERMANENT EXTENSION OF CERTAIN TEM-13
637637 PORARY RULES FOR CHILD TAX CREDIT. 14
638638 (a) C
639639 HILDTAXCREDIT.—Section 24 of the Internal 15
640640 Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 16
641641 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘$1,000’’ and 17
642642 inserting ‘‘$2,000’’, 18
643643 (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking subpara-19
644644 graphs (A) through (C) and inserting the following: 20
645645 ‘‘(A) $400,000 in the case of a joint re-21
646646 turn, and 22
647647 ‘‘(B) $200,000 in any other case.’’, 23
648648 (3) in subsection (d)— 24
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652652 (A) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking 1
653653 ‘‘$3,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$2,500’’, and 2
654654 (B) by adding at the end the following: 3
655655 ‘‘(4) M
656656 AXIMUM AMOUNT OF REFUNDABLE 4
657657 CREDIT.— 5
658658 ‘‘(A) I
659659 N GENERAL.—The amount deter-6
660660 mined under paragraph (1)(A) with respect to 7
661661 any qualifying child shall not exceed $1,700, 8
662662 and such paragraph shall be applied without re-9
663663 gard to subsection (h). 10
664664 ‘‘(B) A
665665 DJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION .— 11
666666 ‘‘(i) I
667667 N GENERAL.—In the case of a 12
668668 taxable year beginning after 2026, the 13
669669 $1,700 amount in subparagraph (A) shall 14
670670 be increased by an amount equal to— 15
671671 ‘‘(I) such dollar amount, multi-16
672672 plied by 17
673673 ‘‘(II) the cost-of-living adjust-18
674674 ment determined under section 1(f)(3) 19
675675 for the calendar year in which the tax-20
676676 able year begins, determined by sub-21
677677 stituting ‘2023’ for ‘2016’ in subpara-22
678678 graph (A)(ii) thereof. 23
679679 ‘‘(ii) R
680680 OUNDING.—If any increase 24
681681 under this subparagraph is not a multiple 25
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685685 of $100, such increase shall be rounded to 1
686686 the next lowest multiple of $100.’’, 2
687687 (4) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 3
688688 following: 4
689689 ‘‘(e) A
690690 DDITIONALREQUIREMENTS.— 5
691691 ‘‘(1) I
692692 DENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS .—No 6
693693 credit shall be allowed under this section to a tax-7
694694 payer who does not include on the return of tax for 8
695695 the taxable year— 9
696696 ‘‘(A) the social security number of the tax-10
697697 payer (and, in the case of a joint return, the so-11
698698 cial security number of the taxpayer’s spouse), 12
699699 ‘‘(B) with respect to any qualifying child, 13
700700 the name and the social security number of 14
701701 such qualifying child, and 15
702702 ‘‘(C) for purposes of subsection (h), with 16
703703 respect to any dependent of the taxpayer, the 17
704704 name and the social security number of such 18
705705 dependent. 19
706706 ‘‘(2) S
707707 OCIAL SECURITY NUMBER DEFINED .— 20
708708 For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘social se-21
709709 curity number’ means, with respect to a return of 22
710710 tax, a social security number issued to an individual 23
711711 by the Social Security Administration, but only if 24
712712 the social security number is issued— 25
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716716 ‘‘(A) to a citizen of the United States or 1
717717 pursuant to subclause (I) (or that portion of 2
718718 subclause (III) that relates to subclause (I)) of 3
719719 section 205(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Social Security 4
720720 Act, and 5
721721 ‘‘(B) before the due date for filing such re-6
722722 turn for the taxable year. 7
723723 ‘‘(3) C
724724 ITIZENSHIP AND LAWFUL PRESENCE RE -8
725725 QUIREMENTS.— 9
726726 ‘‘(A) I
727727 N GENERAL.—No credit shall be al-10
728728 lowed under this section to a taxpayer unless— 11
729729 ‘‘(i) the taxpayer (and, in the case of 12
730730 a joint return, the taxpayer’s spouse) sat-13
731731 isfy the requirements under subparagraph 14
732732 (B), 15
733733 ‘‘(ii) with respect to any qualifying 16
734734 child, such child satisfies the requirements 17
735735 under subparagraph (B), and 18
736736 ‘‘(iii) with respect to any dependent 19
737737 described in subsection (h), such dependent 20
738738 satisfies the requirements under subpara-21
739739 graph (B). 22
740740 ‘‘(B) R
741741 EQUIREMENTS.—The requirements 23
742742 described in this subparagraph are that the in-24
743743 dividual— 25
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747747 ‘‘(i) shall be a citizen of the United 1
748748 States or an alien lawfully present in the 2
749749 United States, and 3
750750 ‘‘(ii) may not be— 4
751751 ‘‘(I) an alien granted asylum 5
752752 under section 208 of the Immigration 6
753753 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158), 7
754754 ‘‘(II) an alien granted parole 8
755755 under section 212(d)(5) or 9
756756 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration and 10
757757 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5), 11
758758 1126(a)(2)(B)), 12
759759 ‘‘(III) an alien granted tem-13
760760 porary protected status under section 14
761761 244 of the Immigration and Nation-15
762762 ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a), 16
763763 ‘‘(IV) an alien granted with-17
764764 holding of removal under section 18
765765 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Na-19
766766 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)), 20
767767 ‘‘(V) any nonimmigrant described 21
768768 in section 101(a)(15) of the Immigra-22
769769 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 23
770770 1101(a)(15)), 24
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774774 ‘‘(VI) any alien granted deferred 1
775775 action or deferred enforced departure, 2
776776 including pursuant to the memo-3
777777 randum of the Department of Home-4
778778 land Security entitled ‘Exercising 5
779779 Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect 6
780780 to Individuals Who Came to the 7
781781 United States as Children’ issued on 8
782782 June 15, 2012, or 9
783783 ‘‘(VII) an alien who has been 10
784784 issued an employment-based immi-11
785785 grant visa described in section 203(b) 12
786786 of that Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)).’’, and 13
787787 (5) by striking subsection (h) and inserting the 14
788788 following: 15
789789 ‘‘(h) P
790790 ARTIALCREDITALLOWED FOR CERTAIN 16
791791 O
792792 THERDEPENDENTS.— 17
793793 ‘‘(1) I
794794 N GENERAL.—The credit determined 18
795795 under subsection (a) shall be increased by $500 for 19
796796 each dependent of the taxpayer (as defined in sec-20
797797 tion 152) other than a qualifying child described in 21
798798 subsection (c). 22
799799 ‘‘(2) E
800800 XCEPTION FOR CERTAIN NONCITIZENS .— 23
801801 Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to any 24
802802 individual who would not be a dependent if subpara-25
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806806 graph (A) of section 152(b)(3) were applied without 1
807807 regard to all that follows ‘resident of the United 2
808808 States’.’’. 3
809809 (b) E
810810 ARNEDINCOMETAXCREDIT.—Section 32 of 4
811811 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by insert-5
812812 ing after subsection (f) the following new subsection: 6
813813 ‘‘(g) C
814814 ITIZENSHIP AND LAWFULPRESENCERE-7
815815 QUIREMENTS.—No credit shall be allowed under this sec-8
816816 tion to an eligible individual unless— 9
817817 ‘‘(1) the individual (and, in the case of a joint 10
818818 return, the individual’s spouse) satisfy the require-11
819819 ments described in section 24(e)(3)(B), and 12
820820 ‘‘(2) with respect to any qualifying child, such 13
821821 child satisfies the requirements under such section.’’. 14
822822 (c) C
823823 ONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 15
824824 6213(g)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is 16
825825 amended— 17
826826 (1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘TIN’’ and 18
827827 inserting ‘‘social security number’’, and 19
828828 (2) by striking subparagraph (L) and inserting 20
829829 the following: 21
830830 ‘‘(L) the inclusion on a return of a TIN re-22
831831 quired to be included on the return under sec-23
832832 tion 21, 6428, or 6428A, or the inclusion on a 24
833833 return of a social security number required to 25
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837837 be included on the return under section 24 or 1
838838 32, if— 2
839839 ‘‘(i) such TIN or social security num-3
840840 ber, as applicable, is of an individual whose 4
841841 age affects the amount of the credit under 5
842842 such section, and 6
843843 ‘‘(ii) the computation of the credit on 7
844844 the return reflects the treatment of such 8
845845 individual as being of an age different 9
846846 from the individual’s age based on such 10
847847 TIN or social security number, as applica-11
848848 ble,’’. 12
849849 (d) E
850850 FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 13
851851 this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 14
852852 December 31, 2025. 15
853853 SEC. 7. FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY PRO-16
854854 HIBITIONS. 17
855855 The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Man-18
856856 agement Agency shall not use amounts available to the 19
857857 Federal Emergency Management Agency for the purpose 20
858858 of— 21
859859 (1) sheltering and related activities provided by 22
860860 non-Federal entities, including facility improvements 23
861861 and construction, in support of relieving over-24
862862 crowding in short-term holding facilities of U.S. 25
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866866 Customs and Border Protection, including the Shel-1
867867 ter and Services Program and any other substan-2
868868 tially similar program; 3
869869 (2) the emergency food and shelter program 4
870870 under title III of the McKinney-Vento Homeless As-5
871871 sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331 et seq.) for the pur-6
872872 poses of providing shelter and other services to fami-7
873873 lies and individuals encountered by the Department 8
874874 of Homeland Security, including humanitarian relief 9
875875 awards under the emergency food and shelter pro-10
876876 gram and any other substantially similar program; 11
877877 or 12
878878 (3) carrying out any program of the Federal 13
879879 Emergency Management Agency that provides as-14
880880 sistance to— 15
881881 (A) an alien (as defined in section 101(a) 16
882882 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 17
883883 U.S.C. 1101(a))) who is unlawfully present in 18
884884 the United States; 19
885885 (B) an alien granted parole under section 20
886886 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration 21
887887 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5), 22
888888 1226(a)(2)(B)); 23
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892892 (C) an alien granted asylum under section 1
893893 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 2
894894 U.S.C. 1158); 3
895895 (D) an alien granted temporary protected 4
896896 status under section 244 of the Immigration 5
897897 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a); 6
898898 (E) an alien granted deferred action or de-7
899899 ferred enforced departure, including pursuant 8
900900 to the memorandum of the Department of 9
901901 Homeland Security entitled ‘‘Exercising Pros-10
902902 ecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals 11
903903 Who Came to the United States as Children’’ 12
904904 issued on June 15, 2012; or 13
905905 (F) an alien granted withholding of re-14
906906 moval under section 241(b)(3) of the Immigra-15
907907 tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)). 16
908908 SEC. 8. ELIGIBILITY FOR POSTSECONDARY FINANCIAL AS-17
909909 SISTANCE BASED ON IMMIGRATION STATUS. 18
910910 Section 484(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act of 19
911911 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1091(a)(5)) is amended to read as fol-20
912912 lows: 21
913913 ‘‘(5) be a citizen, national, or permanent resi-22
914914 dent of the United States; and’’. 23
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918918 SEC. 9. REDUCING ESEA FUNDING FOR SANCTUARY JURIS-1
919919 DICTIONS. 2
920920 Subpart 2 of part F of title VIII of the Elementary 3
921921 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 4
922922 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 5
923923 ‘‘SEC. 8549D. FUNDING REDUCTIONS FOR SANCTUARY JU-6
924924 RISDICTIONS. 7
925925 ‘‘(a) F
926926 UNDINGREDUCTIONS FORSANCTUARYJURIS-8
927927 DICTIONS.— 9
928928 ‘‘(1) I
929929 N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 10
930930 provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines for 11
931931 a fiscal year that a State or political subdivision of 12
932932 a State is a sanctuary jurisdiction, the Secretary 13
933933 shall reduce the allotment or grant that is otherwise 14
934934 authorized under any provision of this Act for the 15
935935 State educational agency of such State or for the eli-16
936936 gible entity of such political subdivision, as applica-17
937937 ble, by 50 percent for such fiscal year. 18
938938 ‘‘(2) R
939939 EALLOTMENT.—In any case in which the 19
940940 Secretary reduces an allotment or grant to a State 20
941941 educational agency or eligible entity under para-21
942942 graph (1) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall 22
943943 reallot an amount for such fiscal year equal to such 23
944944 reduction to the remaining State educational agen-24
945945 cies of States that are not sanctuary jurisdictions or 25
946946 eligible entities of political subdivisions that are not 26
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950950 sanctuary jurisdictions, in accordance with the appli-1
951951 cable requirements of that allotment or grant. 2
952952 ‘‘(b) S
953953 UBGRANTS.— 3
954954 ‘‘(1) I
955955 N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 4
956956 provision of this Act, if the Secretary determines for 5
957957 a fiscal year that a political subdivision of a State 6
958958 is a sanctuary jurisdiction, the State educational 7
959959 agency shall reduce the subgrant amount otherwise 8
960960 authorized under this Act for an eligible entity of 9
961961 such sanctuary jurisdiction by 50 percent for such 10
962962 fiscal year. 11
963963 ‘‘(2) R
964964 EALLOTMENT.—In any case in which a 12
965965 State educational agency reduces a subgrant to an 13
966966 eligible entity under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year, 14
967967 the State educational agency shall reallocate an 15
968968 amount for such fiscal year equal to such reduction 16
969969 to eligible entities of the State that are not eligible 17
970970 entities of sanctuary jurisdictions, in accordance 18
971971 with the applicable requirements of that subgrant. 19
972972 ‘‘(c) S
973973 ANCTUARYJURISDICTION.—The term ‘sanc-20
974974 tuary jurisdiction’ means a State or a political subdivision 21
975975 of a State, including a city, county, township, school dis-22
976976 trict, or other political subdivision, with laws, ordinances, 23
977977 regulations, directives, policies, or practices that obstruct 24
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981981 Federal and local law enforcement agencies from enforcing 1
982982 Federal immigration law, including— 2
983983 ‘‘(1) prohibiting employees from sending, receiv-3
984984 ing, maintaining, or exchanging with any Federal, 4
985985 State, or local government entity, information re-5
986986 garding the citizenship or the lawful or unlawful im-6
987987 migration status of any individual; or 7
988988 ‘‘(2) denying a request lawfully made by the 8
989989 Department of Homeland Security under section 9
990990 236 or 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 10
991991 16 (8 U.S.C. 1226 and 1357) to comply with a de-11
992992 tainer for, or notify about the release of, an indi-12
993993 vidual.’’. 13
994994 SEC. 10. LIMITATION ON REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AND 14
995995 OTHER SERVICES FOR CERTAIN HAITIAN IM-15
996996 MIGRANTS. 16
997997 (a) I
998998 NGENERAL.—Section 501 of the Refugee Edu-17
999999 cation Assistance Act of 1980 (8 U.S.C. 1522 note) is 18
10001000 amended— 19
10011001 (1) by striking ‘‘Cuban and Haitian entrants’’ 20
10021002 each place such term appears and inserting ‘‘Cuban 21
10031003 entrants’’; and 22
10041004 (2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘Cuban or 23
10051005 Haitian entrants’’ and inserting ‘‘Cuban entrants’’; 24
10061006 (3) in subsection (e)— 25
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10101010 (A) in the matter preceeding paragraph 1
10111011 (1), by striking ‘‘Cuban and Haitian entrant’’ 2
10121012 and inserting ‘‘Cuban entrant’’; 3
10131013 (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Cuban/ 4
10141014 Haitian Entrant’’ and inserting ‘‘Cuban En-5
10151015 trant’’; 6
10161016 (C) by striking ‘‘or Haiti’’ each place such 7
10171017 term appears. 8
10181018 (b) C
10191019 ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 9
10201020 (1) The Personal Responsibility and Work Op-10
10211021 portunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 11
10221022 104–193) is amended by striking ‘‘Cuban and Hai-12
10231023 tian entrant’’ each place it appears and inserting 13
10241024 ‘‘Cuban entrant’’. 14
10251025 (2) Section 1611(c)(5) of the Social Security 15
10261026 Act (42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(5)) is amended by striking 16
10271027 ‘‘Cuban and Haitian entrants’’ and inserting 17
10281028 ‘‘Cuban entrants’’. 18
10291029 SEC. 11. PROHIBITING PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL BEN-19
10301030 EFIT PROGRAMS UNTIL A SATISFACTORY IM-20
10311031 MIGRATION STATUS IS VERIFIED. 21
10321032 Section 1137(d) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 22
10331033 1320b–7(d)) is amended— 23
10341034 (1) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘the Immi-24
10351035 gration and Naturalization Service’’ and inserting 25
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10391039 ‘‘the Department of Homeland Security or the De-1
10401040 partment of Justice, as applicable,’’; 2
10411041 (2) in paragraph (3), in the matter preceding 3
10421042 subparagraph (A)— 4
10431043 (A) by striking ‘‘the Immigration and Nat-5
10441044 uralization Service’’ and inserting ‘‘the Depart-6
10451045 ment of Homeland Security’’; and 7
10461046 (B) by striking ‘‘the Service’’ and inserting 8
10471047 ‘‘the Secretary of Homeland Security’’; 9
10481048 (3) in paragraph (4)— 10
10491049 (A) in subparagraph (A)— 11
10501050 (i) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘, not to 12
10511051 exceed 30 days,’’ after ‘‘reasonable oppor-13
10521052 tunity’’; 14
10531053 (ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘may 15
10541054 not’’ and all that follows through the pe-16
10551055 riod and inserting the following: ‘‘shall not 17
10561056 provide benefits under the program to the 18
10571057 individual until the State is provided evi-19
10581058 dence indicating the individual’s satisfac-20
10591059 tory immigration status and the State has 21
10601060 received information from the Secretary of 22
10611061 Homeland Security verifying the individ-23
10621062 ual’s legal immigration status pursuant to 24
10631063 subparagraph (B).’’; and 25
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10671067 (B) in subparagraph (B)— 1
10681068 (i) in clause (i)— 2
10691069 (I) by striking ‘‘the Immigration 3
10701070 and Naturalization Service’’ each 4
10711071 place it appears and inserting ‘‘the 5
10721072 Secretary of Homeland Security’’; and 6
10731073 (II) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the 7
10741074 end; 8
10751075 (ii) by striking clause (ii); 9
10761076 (iii) by redesignating clause (iii) as 10
10771077 clause (ii); and 11
10781078 (iv) in clause (ii), as so redesignated, 12
10791079 by striking ‘‘the Service’’ and inserting 13
10801080 ‘‘the Secretary of Homeland Security’’; 14
10811081 and 15
10821082 (4) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ‘‘or termi-16
10831083 nate’’. 17
10841084 SEC. 12. VERIFICATION OF CITIZENSHIP FOR WIC AND 18
10851085 SCHOOL MEALS. 19
10861086 (a) WIC.—Section 17(d) of the Child Nutrition Act 20
10871087 of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(d)) is amended by adding at the 21
10881088 end the following: 22
10891089 ‘‘(4) C
10901090 ITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS .—An infant 23
10911091 or a child shall be considered ineligible for the pro-24
10921092 gram under this section if— 25
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10961096 ‘‘(A) the infant or child is not— 1
10971097 ‘‘(i) a citizen of the United States; or 2
10981098 ‘‘(ii) an alien who is admitted to the 3
10991099 United States as a refugee under section 4
11001100 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 5
11011101 Act (8 U.S.C. 1157); and 6
11021102 ‘‘(B) a parent (including a guardian) of 7
11031103 the infant or child is— 8
11041104 ‘‘(i) an alien (as defined in section 9
11051105 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 10
11061106 Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) who is unlawfully 11
11071107 present in the United States; 12
11081108 ‘‘(ii) an alien granted asylum under 13
11091109 section 208 of the Immigration and Na-14
11101110 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158); 15
11111111 ‘‘(iii) an alien granted parole under 16
11121112 section 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the 17
11131113 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 18
11141114 1182(d)(5), 1126(a)(2)(B)); 19
11151115 ‘‘(iv) an alien granted temporary pro-20
11161116 tected status under section 244 of the Im-21
11171117 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 22
11181118 1254a); 23
11191119 ‘‘(v) an alien granted deferred action 24
11201120 or deferred enforced departure, including 25
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11241124 pursuant to the memorandum of the De-1
11251125 partment of Homeland Security entitled 2
11261126 ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 3
11271127 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the 4
11281128 United States as Children’ issued on June 5
11291129 15, 2012; or 6
11301130 ‘‘(vi) an alien granted withholding of 7
11311131 removal under section 241(b)(3) of the Im-8
11321132 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 9
11331133 1231(b)(3)).’’. 10
11341134 (b) S
11351135 CHOOLMEALS.—Section 9(b) of the Richard B. 11
11361136 Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(b)) 12
11371137 is amended by adding at the end the following: 13
11381138 ‘‘(16) C
11391139 ITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS .—A child 14
11401140 shall be considered ineligible for free or reduced 15
11411141 price lunch under this Act and free or reduced price 16
11421142 breakfast under section 4 of the Child Nutrition Act 17
11431143 of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) if— 18
11441144 ‘‘(A) the child is not— 19
11451145 ‘‘(i) a citizen of the United States; or 20
11461146 ‘‘(ii) an alien who is admitted to the 21
11471147 United States as a refugee under section 22
11481148 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 23
11491149 Act (8 U.S.C. 1157); and 24
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11531153 ‘‘(B) a parent (including a guardian) of 1
11541154 the child is— 2
11551155 ‘‘(i) an alien (as defined in section 3
11561156 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality 4
11571157 Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) who is unlawfully 5
11581158 present in the United States; 6
11591159 ‘‘(ii) an alien granted asylum under 7
11601160 section 208 of the Immigration and Na-8
11611161 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158); 9
11621162 ‘‘(iii) an alien granted parole under 10
11631163 section 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the 11
11641164 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 12
11651165 1182(d)(5), 1126(a)(2)(B)); 13
11661166 ‘‘(iv) an alien granted temporary pro-14
11671167 tected status under section 244 of the Im-15
11681168 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 16
11691169 1254a); 17
11701170 ‘‘(v) an alien granted deferred action 18
11711171 or deferred enforced departure, including 19
11721172 pursuant to the memorandum of the De-20
11731173 partment of Homeland Security entitled 21
11741174 ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 22
11751175 Respect to Individuals Who Came to the 23
11761176 United States as Children’ issued on June 24
11771177 15, 2012; or 25
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11811181 ‘‘(vi) an alien granted withholding of 1
11821182 removal under section 241(b)(3) of the Im-2
11831183 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 3
11841184 1231(b)(3)).’’. 4
11851185 SEC. 13. RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOP-5
11861186 MENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AND FEDERAL 6
11871187 FUNDING BY TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS. 7
11881188 (a) R
11891189 ESTRICTION ONCDBG FUNDING.—Section 105 8
11901190 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 9
11911191 (42 U.S.C. 5305) is amended by adding at the end the 10
11921192 following: 11
11931193 ‘‘(i) P
11941194 ROHIBITION ON MONETARYCONTRIBUTIONS 12
11951195 ORIN-KINDGOODS ORSERVICES FORNON-CITIZENS.— 13
11961196 A recipient of a grant under this title may not use any 14
11971197 grant funds to provide monetary contributions or in-kind 15
11981198 goods or services to— 16
11991199 ‘‘(1) any alien (as defined in section 101(a) of 17
12001200 the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 18
12011201 1101(a))) who is unlawfully present in the United 19
12021202 States; 20
12031203 ‘‘(2) any alien paroled into the United States 21
12041204 under section 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the Im-22
12051205 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(5), 23
12061206 1226(a)(2)(B)); 24
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12101210 ‘‘(3) any alien granted asylum under section 1
12111211 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 2
12121212 U.S.C. 1158); 3
12131213 ‘‘(4) any alien granted temporary protected sta-4
12141214 tus under section 244 of the Immigration and Na-5
12151215 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a); 6
12161216 ‘‘(5) any alien granted deferred action or de-7
12171217 ferred enforced departure, including pursuant to the 8
12181218 memorandum of the Department of Homeland Secu-9
12191219 rity entitled ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion 10
12201220 with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United 11
12211221 States as Children’ issued on June 15, 2012; or 12
12221222 ‘‘(6) any alien granted withholding of removal 13
12231223 under section 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Na-14
12241224 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)).’’. 15
12251225 (b) R
12261226 ESTRICTION ONUSE OFFEDERALFUNDING BY 16
12271227 T
12281228 AX-EXEMPTORGANIZATIONS.— 17
12291229 (1) I
12301230 N GENERAL.—Section 501 of the Internal 18
12311231 Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the 19
12321232 end the following new subsection: 20
12331233 ‘‘(s) P
12341234 ROHIBITION OFSUPPORT TOCERTAINNON- 21
12351235 CITIZENS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), an organiza-22
12361236 tion which is described in subsection (c)(3) shall not be 23
12371237 exempt from taxation under subsection (a) for any taxable 24
12381238 year if, at any time during such taxable year, such organi-25
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12421242 zation uses any Federal grant, appropriation, or other 1
12431243 Federal funding to provide monetary support, services, or 2
12441244 in-kind contributions to— 3
12451245 ‘‘(1) any alien (as defined in section 101(a) of 4
12461246 the Immigration and Nationality Act) who is unlaw-5
12471247 fully present in the United States, 6
12481248 ‘‘(2) any alien granted parole under section 7
12491249 212(d)(5) or 236(a)(2)(B) of the Immigration and 8
12501250 Nationality Act, 9
12511251 ‘‘(3) any alien granted temporary protected sta-10
12521252 tus under section 244 of the Immigration and Na-11
12531253 tionality Act, 12
12541254 ‘‘(4) any alien granted deferred action or de-13
12551255 ferred enforced departure, including pursuant to the 14
12561256 memorandum of the Department of Homeland Secu-15
12571257 rity entitled ‘Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion 16
12581258 with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United 17
12591259 States as Children’ issued on June 15, 2012, or 18
12601260 ‘‘(5) any alien granted withholding of removal 19
12611261 under section 241(b)(3) of the Immigration and Na-20
12621262 tionality Act.’’. 21
12631263 (2) E
12641264 FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 22
12651265 by this subsection shall apply to taxable years begin-23
12661266 ning after December 31, 2025. 24
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12701270 SEC. 14. IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS AND GUIDANCE. 1
12711271 The head of each appropriate agency shall promul-2
12721272 gate such rulemaking and guidance as may be required 3
12731273 to carry out this Act and the amendments made by this 4
12741274 Act. 5
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