USCIS Act

Use Spending for Congressional Immigration Supervision Act or the USCIS Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that all deposits into the Immigration Examinations Fee Account shall remain available to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (currently, the Department of Justice [DOJ]) for reimbursement of administrative expenses to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts.

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 is amended to declare that certain foreign student and exchange program fees that are deposited into the account shall remain available to DHS (currently, DOJ) for reimbursement of administrative expenses (including expenses related to gathering foreign student information) to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriation Acts.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 591 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 591

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require deposits into 
       the Immigration Examinations Fee Account to be subject to 
                appropriations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 2017

Mr. Brat (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Babin, 
Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Buck, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Emmer, and Mr. 
    Byrne) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require deposits into 
       the Immigration Examinations Fee Account to be subject to 
                appropriations, 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 ``Use Spending for Congressional 
Immigration Supervision Act'' or the ``USCIS Act''.

SEC. 2. DISPOSITION OF FEES DEPOSITED IN IMMIGRATION EXAMINATIONS FEE 
              ACCOUNT.

    (a) Immigration and Nationality Act.--Section 286(n) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(n)) is amended by 
striking ``Attorney General'' and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland 
Security, to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance 
in appropriation Acts,''.
    (b) Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 
1996.--Section 641(e)(4)(B) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1372(e)(4)(B)) is 
amended by striking ``for the Attorney General'' and inserting ``, to 
the extent and in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
appropriation Acts, for the Secretary of Homeland Security''.
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