[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5687 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5687

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2010

 Mr. Cuellar introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend 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 ``Underserved Area Nursing Relief 
Restoration Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION FOR CHANGES TO REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION OF 
              NONIMMIGRANT NURSES IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE 
              AREAS.

    Section 2(e)(2) of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act 
of 1999 (8 U.S.C. 1182 note) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) Application of Nonimmigrant Changes.--The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to classification petitions filed for 
nonimmigrant status only--
            ``(1) during the period--
                    ``(A) beginning on the date that interim or final 
                regulations are first promulgated under subsection (d); 
                and
                    ``(B) 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; and
            ``(2) beginning on the date of enactment of the Underserved 
        Area Nursing Relief Restoration Act of 2010.''.

SEC. 3. EXEMPTION FROM THE 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.
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