HR 3828 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Battered Immigrant Family Relief Act of 2001

Introduced Feb 28, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL

Latest action · May 9, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedFeb 28, 2002
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Battered Immigrant Family Relief Act of 2001 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to make qualifying battered alien spouses and children eligible for specified public benefits. Redefines "qualified alien" for such purposes.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify procedures and provide special rules for battered aliens with respect to: (1) public charge inadmissibility (2) immigrant petitions, including self-petitioning petitions; (3) implementation of immigration provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); (4) fiancee conditional residency requirement; (5) removal and inadmissibility; (6) adjustment of status; and (7) access to VAWA for visa waivers.

Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide that requirements and restrictions placed upon Legal Services Corporation funding shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from providing related legal assistance to certain aliens who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Violence Against Women Grants Office in the Department of Justice to report on services for underserved populations.

Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to include alienage status within the scope of underserved populations.

Cosponsors 47

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 28, 2002 to Oct 16, 2002; 29 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-MA	John F. Tierney	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-NY	Major R. Owens	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-GU	Robert A. Underwood	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Feb 28, 2002
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Feb 28, 2002
D-CA	Barbara Lee		May 8, 2002
D-CA	Bob Filner		May 8, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		May 8, 2002
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		May 8, 2002
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		May 8, 2002
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		May 8, 2002
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		May 8, 2002
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton		May 8, 2002
D-TX	Gene Green		May 8, 2002
D-CA	George Miller		May 8, 2002
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		May 8, 2002
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		May 8, 2002
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 8, 2002
D-CA	Joe Baca		May 8, 2002
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		May 8, 2002
D-CA	Tom Lantos		May 8, 2002
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Oct 16, 2002
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Oct 16, 2002

Committees 5

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2002
	Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee	Referred Mar 18, 2002
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2002
	Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee	Referred May 9, 2002
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2002
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2002
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Mar 13, 2002
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Feb 28, 2002
	Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee	Referred Mar 14, 2002

Actions 7

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 9, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
Mar 18, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Mar 14, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Mar 13, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Feb 28, 2002Introduced in House

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In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E234	Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL	Feb 28, 2002

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To provide additional protections for battered immigrant families.
Short Titles as Introduced: Battered Immigrant Family Relief Act of 2001

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 28, 2002Introduced in House

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