Global Migration Agreement 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 12, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Global Migration Agreement Act
This bill directs the Department of State and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States in both bilateral relationships and multilateral organizations to promote the adoption of a binding Global Migration Agreement.
Such agreement should, among other things, address the root causes of migration, centralize the human rights of migrants, and provide global funding for crisis response involving at-risk migrants.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Sep 17, 2020.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Sep 17, 2020 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 12, 2020 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Feb 12, 2020 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Mar 10, 2020 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 10, 2020Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
- Feb 12, 2020Introduced in House
- Feb 12, 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.
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. 166, no. 29, February 12, 2020, page H1125.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To promote the adoption of a binding Global Migration Agreement, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Global Migration Agreement Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Air quality
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Due process and equal protection
- Foreign aid and international relief
- Human rights
- Immigrant health and welfare
- International Affairs
- International law and treaties
- International organizations and cooperation
- Latin America
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Refugees, asylum, displaced persons
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 12, 2020Introduced 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.
