Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Jan 3, 2025)
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable.
First, the bill establishes that a non-U.S. national is inadmissible if the individual has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, a violation of certain protection orders, or domestic violence (including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships).
Next, the bill establishes additional grounds for deportation. Under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation. The bill also expands the domestic violence crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships.
What just happenedJan 17, 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Who’s behind it
- Referred in SenateJan 17, 2025
- Engrossed in HouseJan 16, 2025
- Introduced in HouseJan 3, 2025
- Jan 17, 2025IntroReferral
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Judiciary Committee - Jan 16, 2025FloorH38310
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jan 16, 2025FloorH37100
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- Jan 16, 2025Floor8000
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- Jan 16, 2025FloorH36210
On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 206 - 213 (Roll no. 16).
Judiciary Committee - Jan 16, 2025FloorH8A000
The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- Jan 16, 2025FloorH36200
Ms. Moore (WI) moved to recommit to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H200)
Judiciary Committee - Jan 16, 2025FloorH35000
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- Jan 16, 2025FloorH8D000
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 30.
- Jan 16, 2025FloorH30000
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 5. (consideration: CR H191-201)
- Jan 3, 2025IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Judiciary Committee - Jan 3, 2025IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2025IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House