[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 457 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 457

     To prohibit the payment of Federal benefits to illegal aliens.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 25 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

   Mr. Exon introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
     To prohibit the payment of Federal benefits to illegal aliens.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF FEDERAL BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL 
              ALIENS.

    (a) Direct Federal Financial Benefits.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no direct Federal financial benefit or social 
insurance benefit may be paid, or otherwise given, on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act, to any person not lawfully present within the 
United States except pursuant to a provision of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act.
    (b) Unemployment Benefits.--No alien who has not been granted 
employment authorization pursuant to Federal law shall be eligible for 
unemployment compensation under an unemployment compensation law of a 
State or the United States.
    (c) Definition.--For the purposes of this Act, the term ``person 
not lawfully within the United States'' shall be any person who at the 
time he or she applies for, receives, or attempts to receive such 
Federal financial benefit is not a United States citizen, a permanent 
resident alien, an asylee, a refugee, a parolee, or a nonimmigrant in 
status.

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