Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2007
Latest action · Jun 26, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedMay 17, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act Act of 2005, with respect to T-visa (victims of severe form of trafficking in persons) and U-visa (victims of certain crimes) nonimmigrant aliens.
Revises provisions with respect to: (1) victims of crime; (2) self-petitioning and self-petitioning by fiance(e)s and children; (3) access to health, housing, and other public benefits, including Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and food stamps; (4) removal, deportation, and detention; (5) parole; (6) naturalization; and (7) admissibility.
Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Homeland Security for related: (1) nonimmigrant status adjustment applications and petitions; (2) employment authorizations; and (3) naturalization applications.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
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 May 17, 2007 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Jun 4, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| Work and Welfare Subcommittee | Referred May 25, 2007 | |
| House | Agriculture Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee | Referred Jun 26, 2007 | |
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred May 17, 2007 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 26, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Jun 4, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- May 25, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
- May 17, 2007Introduced in House
- May 17, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, 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.
- May 17, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to enhance protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Access to health care
- Administrative remedies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alien labor
- Aliens
- Block grants
- Child abuse
- Child labor
- Child sexual abuse
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crimes against women
- Department of Homeland Security
- Deportation
- Detention of persons
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ethics
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Food stamps
- Forced labor
- Government Operations and Politics
- Health
- Health insurance
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing subsidies
- Immigrant health
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Married people
- Medicaid
- Medically uninsured
- Naturalization
- Poor children
- Prostitution
- Public housing
- Refugees
- Right of asylum
- Slavery
- Social Welfare
- Supplemental security income program
- Victims of crimes
- Violence
- Visas
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 17, 2007Introduced in House
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