[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 97 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 97

 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2016, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

  Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2016, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, 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 ``American Dream Employment Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE BENEFICIARIES OF DACA 
              AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID.

    Section 704 of title VII of division E of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``eligible; or'' and inserting 
        ``eligible;''; and
            (2) by striking the semicolon after ``owes allegiance to 
        the United States'' and inserting the following: ``; or (5) is 
        a person who is employed by the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate, and has been issued an employment authorization 
        document under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
        Program of the Secretary of Homeland Security, established 
        pursuant to the memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security entitled `Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 
        Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as 
        Children', dated June 15, 2012:''.
                                 <all>