[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1519 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1519

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State 
                   Criminal Alien Assistance Program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2003

 Mr. King of New York (for himself, Mr. Farr, Mr. Carson of Oklahoma, 
 Mr. McHugh, Mr. Rohrabacher, Ms. Linda T. Sanchez of California, Mr. 
  Deal of Georgia, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Frost, Mr. Bartlett of 
Maryland, Mr. Dooley of California, Mr. Issa, Mr. Lantos, and Mr. Green 
  of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize the State 
                   Criminal Alien Assistance Program.

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

SECTION 1. SCAAP REAUTHORIZED.

    Section 241(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1231(i)) is amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (4)(A) to read as follows:
            ``(4)(A) In carrying out paragraph (1), the Secretary of 
        Homeland Security shall give priority to--
                    ``(i) Federal incarceration of undocumented 
                criminal aliens who have committed aggravated felonies; 
                and
                    ``(ii) compensating States, and political 
                subdivisions of States--
                            ``(I) located on a border of the United 
                        States with Canada or Mexico; or
                            ``(II) having one of the fifth largest 
                        populations of aliens who are not authorized to 
                        be present in the United States.''; and
            (2) by amending paragraph (5) to read as follows:
            ``(5) There are authorized to be appropriated $750,000,000 
        for each of fiscal years 2004 through 2008 to carry out this 
        subsection.''.
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