Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
Latest action · Mar 25, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
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 7, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
This bill directs the Department of Justice to establish an Office of Legal Access Programs within the Executive Office of Immigration Review. The office shall develop and administer programs to educate detained aliens about their legal rights under U.S. immigration law.
The programs shall (1) assist detained aliens in making informed and timely decisions regarding their removal and eligibility for relief from removal; and (2) identify particularly vulnerable aliens, such as unaccompanied children, for right to counsel considerations. The programs may also provide services to detained aliens in specified immigration (detention and removal) and asylum proceedings.
The Department of Homeland Security shall establish procedures to ensure that such programs are available to all detained aliens within five days of arrival into custody, and provide such aliens with various information related to immigration hearing procedures and their rights under immigration law.
Cosponsors 30
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 7, 2019 to Jul 30, 2019; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IN | André Carson | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-TX | Vicente Gonzalez | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-CA | Zoe Lofgren | Original | Feb 7, 2019 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Feb 15, 2019 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Feb 15, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Joseph P. Kennedy III | Feb 15, 2019 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | Feb 15, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Feb 28, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | Feb 28, 2019 | |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Feb 28, 2019 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Feb 28, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Mar 6, 2019 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Juan Vargas | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-CA | Tj Cox | Jul 16, 2019 | |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Jul 18, 2019 | |
| D-LA | Cedric L. Richmond | Jul 30, 2019 |
Committees 1
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 7, 2019 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 25, 2019 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 25, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
- Feb 7, 2019Introduced in House
- Feb 7, 2019Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 24, February 7, 2019, page H1462.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 913 | Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act | Reintroduction of | Mar 9, 2017 |
| HR 1340 | Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act | Reintroduced Bill | Apr 28, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for improvements in the treatment of detainees, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Border security and unlawful immigration
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of Justice
- Detention of persons
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Immigration
- Immigration status and procedures
- Lawyers and legal services
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 7, 2019Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
