Red Light Act

Red Light Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to withhold from states allocations of federal highway funds in FY2020 and thereafter if such states enact laws to provide drivers' licenses or other identification cards to aliens unlawfully present in the United States.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3739 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3739

  To withhold Federal highway funds from States that provide driver's 
 licenses or identification cards to aliens who are unlawfully present 
             in the United States, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 12, 2019

   Mr. Collins of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To withhold Federal highway funds from States that provide driver's 
 licenses or identification cards to aliens who are unlawfully present 
             in the United States, 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 ``Red Light Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS FOR PROVIDING IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO 
              CERTAIN ALIENS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 171. Withholding of funds for providing identification cards to 
              certain aliens
    ``(a) Withholding of Funds for Noncompliance.--For fiscal year 2020 
and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary shall withhold 100 
percent of the amount required to be apportioned under each of sections 
104(b)(1), 104(b)(3), and 104(b)(4) of this title to any State that is 
described in subsection (b).
    ``(b) State Described.--A State described in this subsection is a 
State that has enacted a law that allows the State to provide a 
driver's license or other identification card to an alien who is 
unlawfully present in the United States.
    ``(c) Effect of Withholding Funds.--
            ``(1) Any funds withheld under subsection (a) from 
        apportionment to any State shall remain available until the end 
        of the fiscal year for which the funds are authorized to be 
        appropriated.
            ``(2) If, before the last day of the period for which funds 
        withheld under subsection (a) from apportionment are to remain 
        available for apportionment to a State under paragraph (1), the 
        State meets the requirement of subsection (b), the Secretary 
        shall, on the first day on which the State meets the 
        requirement, apportion to the State the funds withheld under 
        subsection (a) that remain available for apportionment to the 
        State.
    ``(d) Identification Card Defined.--The term `identification card' 
means a personal identification card, as defined in section 1028(d) of 
title 18, United States Code, issued by a State.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, 
in the table of contents is amended by adding at the end the following:

``171. Withholding of funds for providing identification cards to 
                            certain aliens.''.
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