[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 24 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S644]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1475. Mr. TUBERVILLE submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1388 submitted by Mrs. Murray (for herself and 
Mr. Schumer) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 815, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to make certain improvements relating to 
the eligibility of veterans to receive reimbursement for emergency 
treatment furnished through the Veterans Community Care program, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION.

       Paragraph (2) of section 208(d) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(2) Employment authorization.--
       ``(A) Authorization permitted.--An applicant for asylum is 
     not entitled to employment authorization, but such 
     authorization may be provided under regulation by the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security. An applicant who is not 
     otherwise eligible for employment authorization shall not be 
     granted such authorization prior to the date that is 180 days 
     after the date of filing of the application for asylum.
       ``(B) Termination.--Each grant of employment authorization 
     under subparagraph (A), and any renewal or extension thereof, 
     shall be valid for a period of 6 months, except that such 
     authorization, renewal, or extension shall terminate prior to 
     the end of such 6 month period as follows:
       ``(i) Immediately following the denial of an asylum 
     application by an asylum officer, unless the case is referred 
     to an immigration judge.
       ``(ii) 30 days after the date on which an immigration judge 
     denies an asylum application, unless the alien timely appeals 
     to the Board of Immigration Appeals.
       ``(iii) Immediately following the denial by the Board of 
     Immigration Appeals of an appeal of a denial of an asylum 
     application.
       ``(C) Renewal.--The Secretary of Homeland Security may not 
     grant, renew, or extend employment authorization to an alien 
     if the alien was previously granted employment authorization 
     under subparagraph (A), and the employment authorization was 
     terminated pursuant to a circumstance described in 
     subparagraph (B)(i), (ii), or (iii), unless a Federal court 
     of appeals remands the alien's case to the Board of 
     Immigration Appeals.
       ``(D) Ineligibility.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
     may not grant employment authorization to an alien under this 
     paragraph if the alien--
       ``(i) is ineligible for asylum under subsection (b)(2)(A); 
     or
       ``(ii) entered or attempted to enter the United States at a 
     place and time other than lawfully through a United States 
     port of entry.''.
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