[109th Congress Public Law 423]
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Public Law 109-423
109th Congress

                                 An Act


 
     To extend for 3 years changes to requirements for admission of 
 nonimmigrant nurses in health professional shortage areas made by the 
  Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999. <<NOTE: Dec. 20, 
                         2006 -  [H.R. 1285]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Nursing Relief 
for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005.>> 
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 8 USC 1101 note.>> SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged 
Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. 3-YEAR EXTENSION FOR CHANGES TO REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION 
                    OF NONIMMIGRANT NURSES IN HEALTH PROFESSIONAL 
                    SHORTAGE AREAS.

    Section 2 of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999 
(8 U.S.C. 1182 note) is amended--
            (1) in the section heading, by striking ``4-year'' and 
        inserting ``specified''; and
            (2) <<NOTE: 8 USC 1182 note.>> by amending subsection (e) to 
        read as follows:

    ``(e) Limiting Application of Nonimmigrant Changes to Specified 
Period.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to 
classification petitions filed for nonimmigrant status only during the 
period--
            ``(1) <<NOTE: Effective date.>> beginning on the date that 
        interim or final regulations are first promulgated under 
        subsection (d); and
            ``(2) <<NOTE: Termination date.>> ending on the date that is 
        3 years after the date of the enactment of the Nursing Relief 
        for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005.''.
SEC. 3. <<NOTE: 8 USC 1182 note.>> EXEMPTION FROM ADMINISTRATIVE 
                    PROCEDURE ACT.

    The requirements of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code 
(commonly referred to as the ``Administrative Procedure Act'') or any 
other law relating to rulemaking, information collection or publication 
in the Federal Register, shall not apply to any action to implement the 
amendments made by section 2 to the extent the Secretary Homeland of 
Security, the Secretary of Labor, or the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services determines that

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compliance with any such requirement would impede the expeditious 
implementation of such amendments.

    Approved December 20, 2006.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 1285:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 152 (2006):
            June 20, considered and passed House.
            Dec. 6, considered and passed Senate.

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