S 905
111th Congress
Senate
Immigration
Citizenship and naturalization
Crime victims
Immigration status and procedures
New York State
Violent crime
Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act
Introduced: April 28, 2009
Introduced by:
Schumer, Charles E.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 28, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Apr 28, 2009
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Posthumous Citizenship for Binghamton Victims Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide for the granting of citizenship as of April 2, 2009, to an individual otherwise eligible for naturalization who: (1) was, as of April 2, 2009, an alien or U.S. national; (2) died as a result of an injury incurred during the April 3, 2009, shooting at the American Civic Association Community Center in Binghamton, New York; and (3) was not culpable for an act that was a cause of an injury during such shooting.
Prohibits the granting of derivative immigration benefits to surviving relatives of an individual granted posthumous citizenship under this Act.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1