[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1550 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1550

    To extend until September 30, 2008, changes to requirements for 
admission of nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas 
made by the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2005

  Mr. Durbin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To extend until September 30, 2008, changes to requirements for 
admission of nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas 
made by the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999, 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. 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 striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
    ``(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 September 30, 2008.''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT.

    The requirements of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly known 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 1 to the extent that the Secretary of 
Homeland 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.
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