[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H.R. 1285 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.1285

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act



     To extend for 3 years changes to requirements for admission of 
 nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas made by the 
           Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged 
Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. 3-YEAR EXTENSION FOR CHANGES TO REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION OF 
NONIMMIGRANT NURSES IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE AREAS.
    Section 2 of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999 
(8 U.S.C. 1182 note) is amended--
        (1) in the section heading, by striking ``4-year'' and 
    inserting ``specified''; and
        (2) by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:
    ``(e) Limiting Application of Nonimmigrant Changes to Specified 
Period.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to 
classification petitions filed for nonimmigrant status only during the 
period--
        ``(1) beginning on the date that interim or final regulations 
    are first promulgated under subsection (d); and
        ``(2) ending on the date that is 3 years after the date of the 
    enactment of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas 
    Reauthorization Act of 2005.''.
SEC. 3. EXEMPTION FROM ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT.
    The requirements of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly referred to as the ``Administrative Procedure Act'') or any 
other law relating to rulemaking, information collection or publication 
in the Federal Register, shall not apply to any action to implement the 
amendments made by section 2 to the extent the Secretary Homeland of 
Security, the Secretary of Labor, or the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services determines that compliance with any such requirement would 
impede the expeditious implementation of such amendments.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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