[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1969. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE EARNED INCOME TAX 
                   CREDIT.

       (a) In General.--Paragraph (1) of section 32(c) of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subparagraph:
       ``(G) Prohibition on provision of credit to certain 
     immigrants.--
       ``(i) In general.--In the case of any alien not described 
     in clause (ii), no credit shall be allowed under this section 
     for any taxable year.
       ``(ii) Authorized aliens.--An alien is described in this 
     clause if such alien--

       ``(I) is lawfully admitted for permanent residence,
       ``(II) otherwise has lawful status and is authorized to be 
     employed in the United States pursuant to an affirmative 
     grant of such authority under the immigration laws, or
       ``(III) is otherwise lawfully present in the United States, 
     but only if such lawful presence is based on an affirmative 
     grant of withholding of removal pursuant to section 214(b)(3) 
     of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)) 
     or an affirmative grant of withholding or deferral of removal 
     pursuant to Article 3 of the Convention against Torture and 
     other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 
     done at New York December 10, 1984.''.

       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     2014.
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