[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 347 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 347

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make membership in a 
  terrorist organization a basis of exclusion from the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 2 (legislative day, January 30), 1995

 Ms. Snowe (for herself and Mr. Brown) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make membership in a 
  terrorist organization a basis of exclusion from the United States.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Terrorist Exclusion Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. MEMBERSHIP IN A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AS A BASIS FOR EXCLUSION 
              FROM THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND 
              NATIONALITY ACT.

    Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (i)(I);
            (2) by inserting ``or'' at the end of clause (i)(II);
            (3) by inserting after clause (i)(II) the following new 
        subclause:
                                    ``(III) is a member of a terrorist 
                                organization or who actively supports 
                                or advocates terrorist activity,''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                            ``(iv) Terrorist organization defined.--As 
                        used in this subparagraph, the term `terrorist 
                        organization' means an organization that 
                        engages in, or has engaged in, terrorist 
                        activity as determined by the Attorney General, 
                        in consultation with the Secretary of State.''.
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