[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3018 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3018

 To amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to eliminate 
                       the application deadlines.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2005

Ms. Moore of Wisconsin (for herself, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Kind, Mr. Holden, 
    Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Sabo, Mr. Honda, and Mr. McDermott) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to eliminate 
                       the application deadlines.

    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 ``Bruce Vento Hmong Veterans' 
Naturalization Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF APPLICATION DEADLINES.

    Section 6 of the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 (8 
U.S.C. 1423 note) (as amended by section 112 of Public Law 107-77 (115 
Stat. 765)) is amended to read as follows:

``SEC. 6. NO DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION; PAYMENT OF FEES.

    ``This Act shall apply to a person only if the person files an 
application for naturalization, as provided in section 334 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1445), and pays the 
appropriate fees.''.
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