[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1059 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1059

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem any person who has 
   received an award from the Armed Forces of the United States for 
 engagement in active combat or active participation in combat to have 
           satisfied certain requirements for naturalization.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2013

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to deem any person who has 
   received an award from the Armed Forces of the United States for 
 engagement in active combat or active participation in combat to have 
           satisfied certain requirements for naturalization.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PERSONS AS HAVING SATISFIED ENGLISH AND 
              CIVICS, GOOD MORAL CHARACTER, AND HONORABLE SERVICE AND 
              DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATURALIZATION.

    (a) Immigration and Nationality Act.--The Immigration and 
Nationality Act is amended by inserting after section 329A (8 U.S.C. 
1440-1) the following new section:

``SEC. 329B. PERSONS WHO HAVE RECEIVED AN AWARD FOR ENGAGEMENT IN 
              ACTIVE COMBAT OR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN COMBAT.

    ``(a) In General.--For purposes of naturalization and continuing 
citizenship under the following provisions of law, a person who has 
received an award described in subsection (b) shall be treated--
            ``(1) as having satisfied the requirements in sections 
        312(a), 316(a)(3), and subsections (b)(3), (c), and (e) of 
        section 328; and
            ``(2) under sections 328 and 329, as having served 
        honorably in the Armed Forces for (in the case of section 328) 
        a period or periods aggregating one year, and, if separated 
        from such service, as having been separated under honorable 
        conditions.
    ``(b) Application.--This section shall apply with respect to the 
following awards from the Armed Forces of the United States:
            ``(1) The Combat Infantryman Badge from the Army.
            ``(2) The Combat Medical Badge from the Army.
            ``(3) The Combat Action Badge from the Army.
            ``(4) The Combat Action Ribbon from the Navy, the Marine 
        Corps, or the Coast Guard.
            ``(5) The Air Force Combat Action Medal.
            ``(6) Any other award that the Secretary of Defense 
        determines to be an equivalent award for engagement in active 
        combat or active participation in combat.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 329A the following:

``Sec. 329B. Persons who have received an award for engagement in 
                            active combat or active participation in 
                            combat.''.
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