[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4267 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4267

 To provide that no penalty may be imposed on a State for refusing to 
 expend refugee resettlement assistance funds on certain refugees, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 16, 2015

 Mr. Collins of New York (for himself, Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois, Mr. 
 Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Bucshon, and Mr. Latta) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that no penalty may be imposed on a State for refusing to 
 expend refugee resettlement assistance funds on certain refugees, 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 ``Resettlement REFORM (Re-Evaluation 
of Financing Our Refugee Mission) Act''.

SEC. 2. NO PENALTY FOR REFUSAL TO EXPEND REFUGEE ASSISTANCE FUNDS ON 
              CERTAIN REFUGEES.

    Section 412 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Limitation.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this section, a State, without penalty under this section or 
        any other provision of law, may refuse to expend funds received 
        under this section with respect to an alien described in 
        paragraph (2), except that a State may not refuse to expend 
        such funds with respect to an alien described in section 
        1244(b) of the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act of 2007 (8 U.S.C. 
        1157 note).
            ``(2) Aliens described.--An alien is described in this 
        paragraph if the alien--
                    ``(A) is a national of a country that is a state 
                sponsor of terrorism or a terrorist sanctuary; or
                    ``(B) has no nationality and the country in which 
                the alien last habitually resided is a state sponsor of 
                terrorism or a terrorist sanctuary.
            ``(3) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) State sponsor of terrorism.--The term `state 
                sponsor of terrorism' means any country the government 
                of which the Secretary of State has determined has 
                repeatedly provided support for international terrorism 
                pursuant to--
                            ``(i) section 6(j) of the Export 
                        Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 
                        2405);
                            ``(ii) section 620A of the Foreign 
                        Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371); or
                            ``(iii) section 40 of the Arms Export 
                        Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780).
                    ``(B) Terrorist sanctuary.--The term `terrorist 
                sanctuary' has the meaning given the term in section 
                140(d)(5) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 
                Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 2656f (d)(5)).''.
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