U.S. General Population Act
Latest action · Jun 12, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
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.
- IntroducedJun 6, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
U.S. General Population Act - Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement or promote measures to: (1) influence population dynamics through education systems, public health systems, professional and technical training systems, and child protection systems, and encourage the participation of the collective populace in solving the problems that affect it; (2) regulate immigration and ensure immigrant assimilation and distribution into the national environment; (3) restrict U.S. emigration when national interests so require; and (4) stimulate the establishment of strong population cores of U.S. citizens and nationals in low population density border areas.
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) migration; (2) immigration; (3) a national population registry; and (4) immigration-related penalties.
Cosponsors 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 6, 2006 to Jul 28, 2006, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Original | Jun 6, 2006 |
| R-NC | Sue Wilkins Myrick | Jun 13, 2006 | |
| R-IN | Dan Burton | Jun 20, 2006 | |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Jun 29, 2006 | |
| D-VA | Virgil H. Goode Jr. | Jul 28, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 12, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity.
- Jun 6, 2006Introduced in House
- Jun 6, 2006Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative procedure
- Admission of nonimmigrants
- Airline passenger traffic
- Airlines
- Airports
- Alien labor
- Aliens
- Boundaries
- Business records
- Child abuse
- Child labor
- Child sexual abuse
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Common carriers
- Communicable diseases
- Contracts
- Court records
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal aliens
- Criminal justice information
- Data banks
- Demography
- Department of Homeland Security
- Deportation
- Detention of persons
- Diplomats
- Directories
- Disciplining of employees
- Dismissal of employees
- Divorce
- Emigration
- Families
- Federal employees
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Fines (Penalties)
- Forced labor
- Fraud
- Government ethics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Identification devices
- Illegal aliens
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Latin America
- Law
- Liability (Law)
- Licenses
- Local employees
- Marine terminals
- Marriage
- Married people
- Medical tests
- Mexico
- Passenger ships
- Physical examinations
- Political participation
- Political persecution
- Prosecution
- Prostitution
- Public health
- Public records
- Reciprocity
- Refugees
- Research
- Residence requirements
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Slavery
- State employees
- Surety and fidelity
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation workers
- Visas
- Vital statistics
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 6, 2006Introduced in House
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