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H.R.3083
Sponsor: Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.(introduced 10/14/1999)
Latest Major Action: 7/20/2000 House committee/subcommittee actions: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide protection for battered immigrant women, and for other purposes.
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10/14/1999:
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Banking and Financial Services, Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, 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.
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Judiciary
10/29/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
7/20/2000:
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Ways and Means
10/27/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Banking and Financial Services
10/14/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Education and the Workforce
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Agriculture
10/27/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
10/14/1999:
Referred to House Armed Services
10/27/1999:
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
10/27/1999:
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
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COSPONSORS(112), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 10/14/1999 Rep Ackerman, Gary L. - 7/13/2000
Rep Baca, Joe - 10/2/2000 Rep Baird, Brian - 2/2/2000
Rep Baldacci, John Elias - 7/12/2000 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 7/13/2000
Rep Barrett, Thomas M. - 7/17/2000 Rep Bentsen, Ken - 7/24/2000
Rep Berkley, Shelley - 10/14/1999 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 10/14/1999
Rep Blagojevich, Rod R. - 2/16/2000 Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/2/2000
Rep Bonior, David E. - 7/19/2000 Rep Borski, Robert A. - 9/13/2000
Rep Brown, Corrine - 10/14/1999 Rep Capps, Lois - 10/14/1999
Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 10/14/1999 Rep Carson, Julia - 2/10/2000
Rep Christensen, Donna MC - 2/10/2000 Rep Clayton, Eva M. - 2/2/2000
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 10/14/1999 Rep Coyne, William J. - 10/5/2000
Rep Crowley, Joseph - 10/14/1999 Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 11/18/1999
Rep Davis, Danny K. - 7/13/2000 Rep DeGette, Diana - 7/13/2000
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 2/10/2000 Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. - 10/14/1999
Rep Dicks, Norman D. - 7/17/2000 Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 4/13/2000
Rep Etheridge, Bob - 7/12/2000 Rep Evans, Lane - 2/10/2000
Rep Farr, Sam - 10/14/1999 Rep Filner, Bob - 2/10/2000
Rep Forbes, Michael P. - 5/23/2000 Rep Frank, Barney - 11/2/1999
Rep Frost, Martin - 10/14/1999 Rep Gilman, Benjamin A. - 7/12/2000
Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. - 7/18/2000 Rep Green, Gene - 10/14/1999
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 7/17/2000 Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 10/3/2000
Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 7/13/2000 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 10/14/1999
Rep Hooley, Darlene - 7/17/2000 Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 2/10/2000
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 10/14/1999 Rep Jefferson, William J. - 7/12/2000
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 10/14/1999 Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs - 11/2/1999
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 7/18/2000 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 7/12/2000
Rep Kildee, Dale E. - 7/17/2000 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 6/6/2000
Rep Kind, Ron - 10/14/1999 Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 10/5/2000
Rep LaFalce, John J. - 4/4/2000 Rep Lantos, Tom - 11/8/1999
Rep Larson, John B. - 7/17/2000 Rep Leach, James A. - 10/14/1999
Rep Lee, Barbara - 10/14/1999 Rep Lofgren, Zoe - 2/10/2000
Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 10/14/1999 Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 10/14/1999
Rep Maloney, James H. - 3/9/2000 Rep Matsui, Robert T. - 7/12/2000
Rep McDermott, Jim - 7/13/2000 Rep McGovern, James P. - 10/14/1999
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 10/14/1999 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 10/14/1999
Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 7/12/2000 Rep Meek, Carrie P. - 10/14/1999
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 10/14/1999 Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita - 10/14/1999
Rep Miller, George - 10/14/1999 Rep Mink, Patsy T. - 10/14/1999
Rep Morella, Constance A. - 10/14/1999 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 4/13/2000
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 7/13/2000 Rep Neal, Richard E. - 7/12/2000
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 10/14/1999 Rep Olver, John W. - 7/17/2000
Rep Owens, Major R. - 2/10/2000 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 7/12/2000
Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. - 6/15/2000 Rep Pastor, Ed - 2/10/2000
Rep Payne, Donald M. - 11/2/1999 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 2/16/2000
Rep Phelps, David D. - 7/18/2000 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 11/8/1999
Rep Reyes, Silvestre - 7/24/2000 Rep Rodriguez, Ciro - 7/13/2000
Rep Romero-Barcelo, Carlos A. - 3/9/2000 Rep Rothman, Steve R. - 4/13/2000
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 7/12/2000 Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/16/2000
Rep Sanders, Bernard - 10/14/1999 Rep Sandlin, Max - 7/12/2000
Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 10/5/2000 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 10/14/1999
Rep Smith, Adam - 7/24/2000 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/2/2000
Rep Stupak, Bart - 10/14/1999 Rep Towns, Edolphus - 10/14/1999
Rep Underwood, Robert A. - 5/3/2000 Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 7/13/2000
Rep Waters, Maxine - 7/12/2000 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 10/14/1999
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 10/14/1999 Rep Wexler, Robert - 7/19/2000
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 10/14/1999 Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 10/14/1999

SUMMARY AS OF:
10/14/1999--Introduced.

Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify procedures and provide special rules for battered spouses and children with respect to: (1) adjustment of status; (2) removal and deportation; (3) implementation of immigration provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); (4) waivers and exceptions to inadmissibility for otherwise qualified battered immigrants; (5) calculation of physical presence in VAWA cancellation of removal proceedings and suspension of deportation proceedings; (6) VAWA immigration protections; (7) VAWA cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain nonpermanent residents; and (8) good moral character determinations for self- petitioning immediate relatives.

(Sec. 10) Prescribes guidelines for inapplicability of public charge determinations for designated aliens.

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to redefine "qualified alien" to include certain battered aliens for purposes of welfare and public benefits eligibility.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to declare restrictions on the use of assisted housing inapplicable to certain battered aliens.

(Sec. 11) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide that requirements and restrictions placed upon Legal Services Corporation funding shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from providing related legal assistance to certain aliens who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.

Directs the Violence Against Women Grants Office in the Department of Justice to report on services for underserved populations.

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Act) to include legal advocacy for domestic violence in immigration cases under the program of grants to encourage arrest policies.

Includes alienage status within the definition of "underserved populations."

Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to include immigration-related matters under the program of rural domestic violence and child abuse enforcement grants.

Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to include alienage status within the scope of underserved populations.

Amends the Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 1999 to obligate funds for grants to combat violence against women, which shall include immigration-related matters.

Amends the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 to include immigration-related matters under the program of campus domestic violence grants.

(Sec. 12) Amends the Act to require each branch of the U.S. military to train its supervisory military officers in domestic violence dynamics in military families, and the protections available for battered immigrant women and children.

Expands the purposes of training grants to combat violent crimes against women to include: (1) training immigration and asylum officers and judges; and (2) training justice system personnel on the judicial ramifications of the Violence Against Women Act, and the potential immigration consequences for perpetrators of domestic violence.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to express the intent of the Congress that statutory constraints upon the powers of immigration personnel not be construed as discouraging crime and domestic violence victims from reporting crimes to the police, from cooperating in criminal prosecutions, or from obtaining the legal relief needed for protection from ongoing violence.

(Sec. 13) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a humanitarian-material witness nonimmigrant classification.

(Sec. 14) Extends access for battered spouses and children under the Nicaraguan and Central American Relief Act, the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998, and Federal law relating to Cuban adjustment.