Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4696 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4696

 To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render 
   available to certain long-term residents of the United States the 
                      benefit under that section.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2025

  Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
Correa, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
 Ms. DeGette, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Balint, Ms. Ross, Mr. 
Vargas, Ms. Omar, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Menendez, 
  Mr. Nadler, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Thompson of 
   California, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Costa, Ms. Chu, Mr. Suozzi, and Mr. 
   Huffman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render 
   available to certain long-term residents of the United States the 
                      benefit under that section.

    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 ``Renewing Immigration Provisions of 
the Immigration Act of 1929''.

SEC. 2. REGISTRY.

    (a) In General.--Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1259) is amended--
            (1) in the section header, by striking ``entered the United 
        States prior to January 1, 1972'' and inserting ``are long-term 
        residents of the United States''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
                    ``(a) entered the United States at least 7 years 
                before the application date;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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