HRES 443
113th Congress
House
International Affairs
Caribbean area
Citizenship and naturalization
Dominican Republic
Human rights
International organizations and cooperation
Latin America
Organization of American States
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the September 23, 2013, decision of the Dominican Republic Constitutional Court that places hundreds of thousands of Dominican born persons at risk of statelessness.
Introduced: December 12, 2013
Introduced by:
Meeks, Gregory W.
Democratic
· New York
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 10, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Dec 12, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Dec 12, 2013
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) it is U.S. policy to promote the right to nationality without arbitrary deprivation by any state as articulated in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights, and (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) should pursue a multilateral approach to address the potential crisis in the Dominican Republic as a result of that nation's Constitutional Court ruling on September 23, 2013, that could render hundreds of thousands of Dominican-born persons stateless.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
Committees of jurisdiction
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