US Congress House Bill 1970 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on April 6 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Immigration And Border Security Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Kerrie Orozco Act This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to declare that the following persons may be naturalized upon compliance with all naturalization requirements, except that no prior residence or specified physical presence within the United States shall be required: a person who is the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a U.S. citizen who died as a result of injury or disease incurred in or aggravated by employment as a first responder; and in the case of such a surviving spouse, the person was living in marital union with the citizen spouse at the time of the citizen spouse's death. The Department of Homeland Security shall provide for the granting of posthumous citizenship at the time of death to a person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national of the United States, died as a result of injury or disease incurred or aggravated while serving as a first responder.

Kerrie Orozco Act

Rep. Don Bacon [R-NE]	Rep. Jeff Fortenberry [R-NE]	Rep. David Young [R-IA]	Rep. Ralph Abraham [R-LA]
Rep. Trent Kelly [R-MS]	Rep. Jimmy Panetta [D-CA]	Rep. Tom O'Halleran [D-AZ]	Rep. John Rutherford [R-FL]
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]	Rep. Mia Love [R-UT]	Rep. Salud Carbajal [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]
Rep. Timothy Walz [D-MN]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Daniel Donovan [R-NY]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D-MD]	Rep. Glenn Grothman [R-WI]	Rep. Lisa Rochester [D-DE]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]	Rep. Fred Upton [R-MI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-05-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
2017-04-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2017-04-06	House	Introduced in House

HB6580 (Related) 2018-09-26 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1970/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1970/BILLS-115hr1970ih.pdf