[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5496 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5496

 To amend Immigration and Nationality Act regarding the extension of a 
foreign state's designation for purposes of temporary protected status, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2018

 Mr. Perry (for himself and Mr. Biggs) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend Immigration and Nationality Act regarding the extension of a 
foreign state's designation for purposes of temporary protected status, 
                        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 ``TPS Process Reform Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSIONS OF DESIGNATIONS OF TPS COUNTRIES.

    Section 244(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1254a(b)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``determines'' and 
        inserting ``determines or makes no determination''; and
            (2) by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:
                    ``(C) Extension of designation.--If the Attorney 
                General determines under subparagraph (A) that a 
                foreign state (or part of such foreign state) continues 
                to meet the conditions for designation under paragraph 
                (1), the period of designation of the foreign state is 
                extended for an additional period of 6 months (or, in 
                the discretion of the Attorney General, a period of 12 
                or 18 months).''.
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