[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2600 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2600

 To require notification of a Governor of a State if an unaccompanied 
    alien child is transferred to the State and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 2014

  Mr. Johanns (for himself and Mrs. Fischer) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require notification of a Governor of a State if an unaccompanied 
    alien child is transferred to the State 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``UAC State Notification Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF STATE GOVERNORS.

    Section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Notification to States.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
or the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall notify the Governor 
of a State not later than 48 hours prior to the transfer of an 
unaccompanied alien child in the custody of such Secretary to such 
State.''.
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