[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 319 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 319

   To clarify the effect on the citizenship of an individual of the 
                individual's birth in the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 6, 1999

  Mr. Stump introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the effect on the citizenship of an individual of the 
                individual's birth in the United States.

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

SECTION 1. BASIS OF CITIZENSHIP CLARIFIED.

    In the exercise of its powers under section 5 of the Fourteenth 
Article of Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the 
Congress has determined and hereby declares that any person born after 
the date of enactment of this Act to a mother who is neither a citizen 
or national of the United States nor admitted to the United States as a 
lawful permanent resident, and which person is a citizen or national of 
another country of which either of his or her natural parents is a 
citizen or national, or is entitled upon application to become a 
citizen or national of such country, shall be considered as born 
subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign country and not subject to 
the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of section 1 
of such Article and shall therefore not be a citizen of the United 
States or of any State solely by reason of birth in the United States.
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