[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 970 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 970

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain aliens 
 who work for the Department of Veterans Affairs from the requirement 
that they work only in areas designated as having a shortage of health-
                          care professionals.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 1997

Mr. Conrad (for himself and Mr. Bumpers) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain aliens 
 who work for the Department of Veterans Affairs from the requirement 
that they work only in areas designated as having a shortage of health-
                          care professionals.

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

SECTION 1. WAIVER OF CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS.

    Section 214(l)(1)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(l)(1)(D)) (as added by section 220 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 and redesignated as 
subsection (l) by section 671(a)(3)(A) of the Illegal Immigration 
Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, except that, 
in the case of a request by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the 
alien shall not be required to practice medicine in a geographic area 
designated by the Secretary''.
                                 <all>