HR871-119

In Committee

RULES Act

119th Congress Introduced Jan 31, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, RULES Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Transportation, 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 H24619B70ECDC462B9AF3CD7FC29B5F8F: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Refugees Using Legal Entry Safely Act or RULES Act.
  • Section HF0F43B5021D24D28AAAACDCBCDDD9BBF: 2. Modification of asylum eligibility Section 208(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)) is amended— by amending paragraph (1) to read as...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, RULES Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Key Policy Areas

Immigration, Transportation, Government Operations

Primary Purpose

This bill, RULES Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Transportation Government Operations

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jan 31, 2025

Mrs. Luna (for herself, Mr. Ogles, Mr. Weber of Texas, …

Jan 31, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Jan 31, 2025

Introduced in House

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?

Domains
Immigration Transportation Government Operations
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security

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