LOCATE Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, LOCATE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Government Operations, Environment.
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 titles This Act may be cited as the Location Updates for Custody and Transparency Enforcement Act or the LOCATE Act.
- Section id789d9043a706475db3abdddc13974d8c: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term custody event means, with respect to an individual in immigration detention, any of the following: Initial intake or...
- Section ida73b0a0b43f2442b934aa6ab19db37dc: 3. Timely reporting of detainee custody events Not later than 6 hours after any custody event affecting an individual in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border...
- Section id7240e31138f74b2d92283a5d95319bb6: 4. Enforcement and accountability The Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security shall— conduct annual audits to evaluate the Department of...
- Section idc4e923bea04749c38533844d7196e1d0: 5. Effective date This Act shall take effect on the date that is 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, LOCATE Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Government Operations, Environment
Primary Purpose
This bill, LOCATE 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
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Luján introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
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
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