[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1285 Referred in Senate (RFS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1285


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 21, 2006

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 20, 2006.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.