[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 655 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 655

 To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related 
     purpose a State-issued driver's license, or other comparable 
    identification document, unless the State requires a license or 
 comparable document issued to a nonimmigrant alien to expire upon the 
   expiration of the alien's authorized period of stay in the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2003

Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. Castle, Mr. Kennedy 
  of Minnesota, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Pitts, Mr. Jones of North 
Carolina, Ms. Hart, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Bereuter, Mr. Terry, 
 Mr. Bachus, and Mr. Burton of Indiana) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in 
    addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To bar Federal agencies from accepting for any identification-related 
     purpose a State-issued driver's license, or other comparable 
    identification document, unless the State requires a license or 
 comparable document issued to a nonimmigrant alien to expire upon the 
   expiration of the alien's authorized period of stay in the United 
                    States, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. EXPIRATION OF IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS ISSUED TO 
              NONIMMIGRANTS.

    (a) Standards for Acceptance by Federal Agencies.--A Federal agency 
may not accept for any identification-related purpose a driver's 
license, or other comparable identification document, issued by a State 
to any person, unless the State has in effect a policy requiring any 
such license or document, when issued by the State to an nonimmigrant 
alien, to bear an expiration date that is not later than--
            (1) the last day of the nonimmigrant alien's lawfully 
        authorized period of stay in the United States; or
            (2) 5 years after the date on which the license or document 
        is issued, in any case in which the nonimmigrant alien's 
        lawfully authorized period of stay--
                    (A) is modified at any time after the alien's 
                admission into the United States; or
                    (B) does not expire on a date certain.
    (b) Grants to States.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
make grants to States to assist them in issuing driver's licenses and 
other comparable identification documents that satisfy the requirements 
of subsection (a).
    (c) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, but shall apply only to 
licenses or documents issued to a nonimmigrant alien for the first time 
after such effective date and to replacement or renewal licenses or 
documents issued according to State law after such effective date.
    (d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) Federal agency.--The term ``Federal agency'' means any 
        of the following:
                    (A) An Executive agency (as defined in section 105 
                of title 5, United States Code).
                    (B) An agency in the judicial branch of the 
                Government of the United States.
            (2) Nonimmigrant alien.--The term ``nonimmigrant alien'' 
        means an alien who is lawfully admitted to the United States by 
        reason of having presented at the port of entry a valid 
        unexpired nonimmigrant visa issued under section 221 of the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201).
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