To provide protections for children in immigration custody, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To provide protections for children in immigration custody, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Government Operations, Criminal Justice.
Who Benefits and How
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H2C9C2FF32E4D469E8534979822E8CC37: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Children’s Safe Welcome Act of 2024. The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
- Section H45D4D376B0B54C2DAC8B596398C8C514: 2. Definitions In this Act: With respect to an accompanied noncitizen child or unaccompanied noncitizen child, the term best interests of the child means a...
- Section H24F3693B77F14A46B57BD61BB6FEBBA1: 101. Prohibition on family separation A noncitizen child shall remain physically together with their parent, legal guardian, or nonparent family member at all...
- Section HB4A3F1081447453F8C577D6F18554B2A: 102. Protections for noncitizen children Section 235 of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232) is...
- Section H36F6D3AF86B342ED98DF75D9E2947474: 103. Nonadversarial asylum processing for noncitizen children Section 208(b)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(3)(C)) is amended...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To provide protections for children in immigration custody, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Government Operations, Criminal Justice
Primary Purpose
This bill, To provide protections for children in immigration custody, and for other purposes., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Kamlager-Dove (for herself, Ms. Barragán, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
a bed— to be provided to the Department of Health and Human Services for use by an unaccompanied noncitizen child that is funded by a grant, cooperative agreement, contract, or any other means
any public or private facility, including a mental health facility, or any other location that— is used to provide residential care for unaccompanied noncitizen children
a facility intended to house more than 25 individuals at a time. Beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act— the Director may not place an unaccompanied noncitizen child in a large congregate care facility
an individual who is— 18 years of age or older
a— congregate care facility for the purpose of rehabilitation or residential treatment
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