[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3061 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3061

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for an additional 
  2 years the period for admission of an alien as a nonimmigrant under 
 section 101(a)(15)(S) of such Act, and to authorize appropriations for 
   the refugee assistance program under chapter 2 of title IV of the 
                    Immigration and Nationality Act.

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

SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.

    In light of the increasing problem of alien smuggling into the 
United States, it is the sense of the Congress that the Attorney 
General should use the provision of nonimmigrant status under section 
101(a)(15)(S) of the Immigration and Nationality Act in a greater 
number of alien smuggling investigations per year than has been done in 
the past.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION FOR ADMISSION OF ``S'' VISA 
              NONIMMIGRANTS.

    Section 214(k)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(k)(2)) is amended by striking ``5'' and inserting ``7''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.

    Section 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1524(a)) is amended by striking ``1998 and 1999'' and inserting ``2000 
through 2002''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.