Skip to main content
HR 2825 114th Congress House Immigration Foreign labor Fraud offenses and financial crimes Health personnel Immigration status and procedures Nursing Refugees, asylum, displaced persons User charges and fees Visas and passports

Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act of 2015

Introduced: June 18, 2015 Introduced by: Babin, Brian Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
Sign in to write a letter Sign in to watch
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 1, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Jun 29, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.
Jun 18, 2015
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 18, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act of 2015

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide that the following fees shall be miscellaneous receipts to be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury:

  • asylum fees,
  • nonimmigrant nurse fees,
  • employer fees,
  • additional employer fees,
  • Department of State and Department of Homeland Security fraud prevention and detection fees,
  • visa waiver program fees,
  • temporary protected status fees,
  • adjustment of status fees,
  • administrative fines and penalties,
  • the genealogy fee,
  • the premium fee for employment-based petitions and applications,
  • biometric entry and data system fees, and
  • nonimmigrant foreign student fees.

Authority for the visa waiver program travel promotion fee is extended through September 30, 2015.

Fee disposition provisions are revised.

Fee revenues in all of the accounts under section 286 of INA, as of the day before the date of enactment of this Act, shall be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury on the effective date provided for by this Act.

All of the accounts authorized under such section (including the Immigration User Fee Account and the Land Border Inspection Account), as of the day before the date of enactment of this Act, shall be terminated on such date.

What's happening now July 1, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2