[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 196 (Wednesday, December 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H10152-H10153]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 GRANTING OF POSTHUMOUS CITIZENSHIP TO OTHERWISE QUALIFIED NONCITIZENS 
                    WHO ENLISTED IN THE PHILIPPINES

  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on the Judiciary be discharged from further consideration of 
the bill (H.R. 887) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
extend honorary citizenship to otherwise qualified noncitizens who 
enlisted in the Philippines and died while serving on active duty with 
the United States Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities, 
and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the 
House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Virginia?
  There was no objection.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                                H.R. 887

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. GRANTING OF POSTHUMOUS CITIZENSHIP TO OTHERWISE 
                   QUALIFIED NONCITIZENS WHO ENLISTED IN THE 
                   PHILIPPINES.

       (a) In General.--Section 329A(b) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440-1(b)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(b) Noncitizens Eligible for Posthumous Citizenship.--
       ``(1) In general.--A person referred to in subsection (a) 
     is a person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national of 
     the United States--
       ``(A) served honorably in an active-duty status in the 
     military, air, or naval forces of the United States during 
     any period described in the first sentence of section 329(a);
       ``(B) died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or 
     aggravated by that service; and
       ``(C) either--
       ``(i) satisfied the requirements of clause (1) or (2) of 
     the first sentence of section 329(a); or
       ``(ii) enlisted, reenlisted, extended enlistment, or was 
     inducted in the Philippines and died during the period 
     beginning September 1, 1939, and ending December 31, 1946.
       ``(2) Determination of satisfaction of requirements.--The 
     executive department under which a person described in 
     paragraph (1) served shall determine whether the person 
     satisfied the requirements of subparagraphs (A), (B), and 
     (C)(ii) of paragraph (1).
       ``(3) Posthumous benefits.--In the case of a person to 
     which paragraph (1)(C)(ii) applies--
       ``(A) section 319(d) shall not apply; and
       ``(B) section 1703 of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136; 117 Stat. 1693; 
     8 U.S.C. 1151 note) shall not apply.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 329A(c)(2) of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440-1(c)(2)) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by inserting ``(or, in the case 
     of an individual to which clause (ii) of subsection (b)(1)(C) 
     applies, the date of the enactment of such clause (ii))''

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     after ``the date of enactment of this section'';
       (2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) the request is accompanied by a duly authenticated 
     certificate from the executive department under which the 
     person served which states that the person satisfied the 
     requirements of--
       ``(i) subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1); and
       ``(ii) if applicable, subparagraph (C)(ii) of subsection 
     (b)(1); and''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``of subsection 
     (b)(3)'' and inserting ``of subsection (b)(1)(C)(i)''.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

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