[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2338 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2338

 To prohibit any alien formerly detained at the Department of Defense 
detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and brought 
  into the United States from receiving any Federal, State, or local 
                            public benefit.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2009

 Mr. Tiahrt (for himself, Mr. Herger, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, and Mr. 
Burton of Indiana) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit any alien formerly detained at the Department of Defense 
detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and brought 
  into the United States from receiving any Federal, State, or local 
                            public benefit.

    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 ``No Welfare for Terrorists Act of 
2009''.

SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY FOR PUBLIC BENEFITS.

    Notwithstanding title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), or any 
other provision of law, an alien who is detained at the Department of 
Defense detention facility at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and subsequently is brought into 
the United States, is permanently ineligible for any Federal public 
benefit (as defined in section 401(c) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1611(c)) 
and any State or local public benefit (as defined in section 411(c) of 
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1621(c)).
                                 <all>