S3178-118

Introduced

To establish the Children's Court to improve the adjudication of immigration cases involving unaccompanied alien children.

118th Congress Introduced Nov 1, 2023

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Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To establish the Children's Court to improve the adjudication of immigration cases involving unaccompanied alien children., 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 S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Immigration Court Efficiency and Children's Court Act of 2023.
  • Section id4284b19d2cf6436b9b621a644021aa1c: 2. Establishment and structure of the Children’s Court Chapter 4 of title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1221 et seq.) is amended by...
  • Section id568fccabb59e4926b88686cafe8e5797: 240D. Children’s Court In this section: The term Children's Court means all of the specialized children's dockets described in this section. The term Director...
  • Section id3bcd9563825640fa9055bd4d8e3ad422: 3. Prohibition on information sharing The Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement may not provide any information about an unaccompanied alien child in...
  • Section ideee03f671ff0472f8b236e33c804e737: 4. Reporting and evaluation In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate; the Committee...

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To establish the Children's Court to improve the adjudication of immigration cases involving unaccompanied alien children., 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 establish the Children's Court to improve the adjudication of immigration cases involving unaccompanied alien children., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.

Policy Domains

Immigration Government Operations Criminal Justice

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
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federal implementing agencies: ,
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers: ,

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Nov 1, 2023

Mr. Bennet (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following …

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 Government Operations Criminal Justice
Actor Mappings
"secretary_of_commerce"
→ Secretary of Commerce
"secretary_of_homeland_security"
→ Secretary of Homeland Security
"secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
→ Secretary of Health and Human Services

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