[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7043 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7043

 To withhold funding authorized under the CARES Act from any State or 
municipality that provides economic stimulus payments through a program 
             designed to exclusively assist illegal aliens.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 28, 2020

  Mr. Buck (for himself, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Budd, Mr. Gaetz, Mr. Roy, Mr. 
 DesJarlais, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Murphy of North Carolina, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. 
 Massie, Mr. Posey, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Riggleman, Mr. 
  Babin, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Cline, and Mr. Steube) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To withhold funding authorized under the CARES Act from any State or 
municipality that provides economic stimulus payments through a program 
             designed to exclusively assist illegal aliens.

    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 ``No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS TO OFFSET STIMULUS CHECKS TO 
              ILLEGAL ALIENS.

    (a) In General.--Title XIII of the Emergency Appropriations for 
Coronavirus Health Response and Agency Operations (division B of Public 
Law 116-136) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 23008 as section 23009; and
            (2) by inserting after section 23007 the following:
    ``Sec. 23008.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or 
any amendment made by this Act, no funds made available under this Act 
or by any amendment made by this Act, may be made available to a State 
or municipality (as such terms are defined in section 4002 of division 
A) unless the State or municipality has certified that it is not 
providing relief funds or similar monetary payments of any kind that 
are targeted exclusively to individuals who are believed to be 
unlawfully present in the United States.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(2) shall 
apply to any funds made available under the CARES Act (Public Law 116-
136) on or after the date of the enactment of that Act.
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