Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act of 2015

Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act of 2015

This bill makes Cuban nationals who enter the United States on or after the date of enactment of this Act ineligible for refugee/parolee assistance under the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980.

Conforming amendments are made to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The Inspector General of the Social Security Administration shall report to Congress describing methods for enforcing the loss of Supplemental Security Income eligibility by persons who are absent from the United States for at least one month.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4247 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4247

   To provide that certain Cuban entrants are ineligible to receive 
              refugee assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 15, 2015

    Mr. Curbelo of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
   referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that certain Cuban entrants are ineligible to receive 
              refugee assistance, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN CUBANS ENTRANTS INELIGIBLE FOR REFUGEE ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Title V of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 
1980 (8 U.S.C. 1522 note) is amended--
            (1) in the heading by striking ``CUBAN AND''; and
            (2) in section 501--
                    (A) by striking ``Cuban and'' each place it 
                appears; and
                    (B) in subsection (e)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1)--
                                    (I) by striking ``Cuban/''; and
                                    (II) by striking ``Cuba or''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Cuba 
                        or''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Personal responsibility and work opportunity 
        reconciliation act of 1996.--Title IV of the Personal 
        Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 
        (8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is amended by striking ``Cuban and 
        Haitian entrant'' each place it appears and inserting ``Haitian 
        entrant''.
            (2) Immigration and nationality act.--Section 245A(h)(2)(A) 
        of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
        1255a(h)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``Cuban and Haitian 
        entrant'' each place it appears and inserting ``Haitian 
        entrant''.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by this section shall apply 
only in the case of a national of Cuba who enters the United States on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration shall 
submit to Congress a report which describes the methods by which the 
requirement under section 416.215 of title 20, Code of Federal 
Regulations, is enforced.
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