Lady Liberty Act of 2023

Lady Liberty Act of 2023

This bill sets a floor of 125,000 for the maximum number of refugees who may be admitted into the United States each fiscal year. Under current law, the President sets the annual cap on refugee admissions at the beginning of each fiscal year. (The cap for FY2023 was 125,000, but in some years it had been lower. For example, the cap for FY2021 was 15,000.)

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4156 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4156

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a minimum 
number of refugees who may be admitted in any fiscal year after fiscal 
                   year 2024, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2023

Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Smith 
 of Washington, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Panetta, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
     Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Evans, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. 
   Espaillat, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. 
 Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Omar, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Pascrell, Mrs. Watson 
 Coleman, Mr. Green of Texas, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
  Raskin, and Mr. Grijalva) 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 provide for a minimum 
number of refugees who may be admitted in any fiscal year after fiscal 
                   year 2024, 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 ``Lady Liberty Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM NUMBER OF REFUGEES TO BE ADMITTED.

    Section 207(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1157(a)) is amended by inserting after ``in any fiscal year after 
fiscal year 1982 shall be such number as the President determines,'' 
the following: ``except that in any fiscal year after fiscal year 2024, 
such number may not be less than 125,000, without regard to whether or 
not the President makes any determination''.
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