US Congress House Resolution 443 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on December 12 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-10 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Pending: House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) it is U.S. policy to promote the right to nationality without arbitrary deprivation by any state as articulated in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, and (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) should pursue a multilateral approach to address the potential crisis in the Dominican Republic as a result of that nation's Constitutional Court ruling on September 23, 2013, that could render hundreds of thousands of Dominican-born persons stateless.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the September 23, 2013, decision of the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court that places hundreds of thousands of Dominican born persons at risk of statelessness.

Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-10	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
2013-12-12	House	Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-resolution/443/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hres443/BILLS-113hres443ih.pdf