Special Envoy for Refugees Act
Latest action · Mar 10, 2020 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 6, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Special Envoy for Refugees Act
This bill requires the President to appoint a Special Envoy for Refugees whose duties shall include (1) representing the United States in diplomacy related to global displacement, migration, refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced and stateless individuals; and (2) leading interagency coordination to oversee research related to the global refugee crisis and the U.S. refugee program.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2020Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
- Feb 6, 2020Introduced in House
- Feb 6, 2020Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: International Affairs.
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Federal officials
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Immigration status and procedures
- Interagency Council on Homelessness
- International Affairs
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2020Introduced in House
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