[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6055 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6055

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to indemnify government 
    employees, and employees entities that have contracts with such 
 governments, from certain judgements for acting within their capacity 
 to comply with their official duties and responsibilities, and other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2018

  Mr. Gomez (for himself, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Takano, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
Smith of Washington, Mr. Payne, Ms. Norton, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. McGovern, 
 and Mr. Quigley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to indemnify government 
    employees, and employees entities that have contracts with such 
 governments, from certain judgements for acting within their capacity 
 to comply with their official duties and responsibilities, and 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 ``Keep Our Cities Safe Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. INDEMNIFICATION FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES.

    Section 274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) Exception.--This section shall not apply to any officer or 
employee of the Federal Government, or of a State or local government, 
or to an officer or employee of an entity with which such a government 
has a contract, who is acting in accordance with the law of the State 
or locality in which the employee engaged in conduct which would 
otherwise violate this section.''.
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