[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3391 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3391

 To provide Governors of States with the authority to withhold Federal 
financial assistance from units of local government that do not comply 
           with the immigration laws, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2015

  Mr. Perry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide Governors of States with the authority to withhold Federal 
financial assistance from units of local government that do not comply 
           with the immigration laws, 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. AUTHORITY TO WITHHOLD FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

    A Governor of a State may withhold Federal financial assistance (as 
such term is defined in section 7501(a)(5) of title 31, United States 
Code) from a unit of local government in that State that has not 
complied with the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 
101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)), as 
determined by the Governor.
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