American Dream Employment Act of 2016

American Dream Employment Act of 2016

This bill amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 to permit the compensation of congressional employees who have been issued employment authorization documents under the Department of Homeland Security's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program.

The program enables many unlawfully present aliens who came to the United States as children to be granted deferred action (a type of relief from removal which does not confer immigration status) and work authorization.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4842 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4842

 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2016, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2016

Mrs. Kirkpatrick (for herself, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Castro of 
Texas, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Hinojosa, Mr. Lewis, Ms. Castor of Florida, 
 Mr. Takano, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. 
Gene Green of Texas, Ms. Moore, Ms. Norton, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Honda, Mrs. 
 Napolitano, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. 
Gutierrez, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Judy Chu of California, and Mr. 
    Polis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 
 2016, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the 
United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action 
        for Childhood Arrivals program, 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 ``American Dream Employment Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE BENEFICIARIES OF DACA 
              AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID.

    Section 704 of title VII of division E of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``eligible; or'' and inserting 
        ``eligible;''; and
            (2) by striking the semicolon after ``owes allegiance to 
        the United States'' and inserting the following: ``; or (5) is 
        a person who is employed by the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate, and has been issued an employment authorization 
        document under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 
        Program of the Secretary of Homeland Security, established 
        pursuant to the memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security entitled `Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with 
        Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as 
        Children', dated June 15, 2012:''.
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