HR 6236 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Family Unity Rights and Protection Act

Introduced Jun 27, 2018 Originated House Sponsor Karen Bass D-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 2, 2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

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.

  1. IntroducedJun 27, 2018
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Family Unity Rights and Protection Act

This bill requires the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, State, and Defense to ensure that alien children (i.e., children under the age of 18 removed from their parents or legal guardians at or near a port of entry or within 100 miles of the U.S. border pursuant to a zero tolerance policy for criminal illegal reentry) are reunited at the earliest possible date with their parents and guardians from whom they were separated. It also requires notification of parents and guardians of procedures for reuniting with such children and for the location of such children.

The bill requires the creation of an electronic registry for information used to locate such alien children and their parents and guardians. The information in such registry may only be used for locating such children and may not be used in any criminal prosecution or other immigration proceeding.

The bill also sets forth conditions on the termination of parental rights in immigration proceedings and requires the consolidation of asylum and immigration proceedings involving alien children.

Cosponsors 79

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 27, 2018 to Sep 6, 2018, with 53 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-TXAl GreenOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-FLAl Lawson, Jr.OriginalJun 27, 2018
D-NJAlbio SiresOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-NCAlma S. AdamsOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-INAndré CarsonOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-MNBetty McCollumOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-NJBonnie Watson ColemanOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-LACedric L. RichmondOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-ILDaniel LipinskiOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-ILDanny K. DavisOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-FLDarren SotoOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-RIDavid N. CicillineOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-GADavid ScottOriginalJun 27, 2018
D-MIDebbie DingellOriginalJun 27, 2018
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Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Aug 2, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
  2. Jul 10, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
  3. Jun 27, 2018Introduced in House
  4. Jun 27, 2018Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Armed Services, 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.

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Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jun 27, 2018Introduced in House

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