[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 397 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 397

To prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from operating 
    unlicensed temporary emergency shelters for unaccompanied alien 
                               children.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2019

  Mr. Merkley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from operating 
    unlicensed temporary emergency shelters for unaccompanied alien 
                               children.

    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 ``Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINED TERM.

    In this Act, the term ``temporary emergency shelter'' means an 
unlicensed care provider facility that provides temporary emergency 
shelter and services for unaccompanied alien children when licensed 
facilities are near or at capacity.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST TEMPORARY EMERGENCY SHELTERS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not maintain or 
operate (directly or through a contract) any temporary emergency 
shelter, including--
            (1) the temporary emergency shelter previously operational 
        in Tornillo, Texas; and
            (2) the temporary emergency shelter in Homestead, Florida.
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