Arrest Statistics Reporting Act of 2019

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2973 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2973

To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to 
  submit annual reports regarding certain demographic information on 
                            aliens arrested.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2019

 Mr. Brooks of Alabama (for himself, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. McClintock, 
and Mr. Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to 
  submit annual reports regarding certain demographic information on 
                            aliens arrested.

    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 ``Arrest Statistics Reporting Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. REPORTING OF INFORMATION ON ARRESTEES.

    The Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall, 
beginning on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act, and annually thereafter, publish and make publicly available 
on the internet a report that includes, for each person arrested during 
the year preceding the date of the report and regarding whom a request 
was submitted to the Law Enforcement Support Center authorized under 
section 236(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1226(d)) or any potential matches forwarded under the information 
sharing program between the Department of Justice and the Department of 
Homeland Security (formerly known as ``Secure Communities''), the 
following information, when available:
            (1) The immigration status of the person.
            (2) The nationality of the person.
            (3) The offense for which the person was arrested, 
        represented by the appropriate Uniform Crime Reporting offense 
        code.

SEC. 3. REPORTING BY FBI DIRECTOR.

    The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall revise 
the Uniform Crime Reports to require that each report pertaining to an 
arrest shall include the information about the arrest published under 
section 2, and the Director shall also publish a summary of the data 
which shall include--
            (1) a table containing the Uniform Crime Reporting offense 
        codes and the corresponding occurrences for each immigration 
        status category; and
            (2) a table containing the Uniform Crime Reporting offense 
        codes and the corresponding occurrences for each nationality.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) The term ``immigration status'' includes status as--
                    (A) a United States citizen or national;
                    (B) a lawful permanent resident of the United 
                States;
                    (C) a nonimmigrant alien lawfully present in the 
                United States; or
                    (D) an alien not lawfully present in the United 
                States.
            (2) The term ``Uniform Crime Reports'' means the reports 
        authorized under section 534 of title 28, United States Code, 
        and administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which 
        compiles nationwide criminal statistics for use in law 
        enforcement administration, operation, and management and to 
        assess the nature and type of crime in the United States.
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