SHIELD Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, SHIELD Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Foreign Policy, Government Operations.
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 H940C985E8659429E815BA8B3E090A651: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Sanctioning Harmful Illicit Exploitation of Labor and Dependents Act or SHIELD Act.
- Section HEBED8DCE837D4B2BBEA8481353DDAA11: 2. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— forced labor and illegal exploitation of child labor in some of the most dangerous work in the world is...
- Section H80342082A49344F7A5808207356E7EBC: 3. Sanctions The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person employing forced labor or child labor in...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, SHIELD Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Foreign Policy, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
This bill, SHIELD Act, 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
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was …
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?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
an individual or entity that is not a United States person
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