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H.R. 4340 115th Congress House

American LAWS Act

Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children,… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, and make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system.

Introduced: December 4, 2017 See on congress.gov
Immigration Administrative remediesBorder security and unlawful immigrationComputer security and identity theftDepartment of Homeland Security
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Dec 13, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.
Nov 9, 2017
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
Nov 9, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Latest action December 13, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

American Labor, Wages, and Sovereignty Act or the American LAWS Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and (2) reduce the worldwide fiscal year level for family-sponsored immigration.

Legal Workforce Act

The bill revises the employment eligibility verification process. It also increases employer penalties for the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens.

The bill establishes a nonimmigrant alien visa for the parent of a U.S. citizen who is at least 21 years old.

The Department of Homeland Security shall establish: (1) an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system; (2) programs to block the use of misused social security numbers and suspend the use of social security account numbers of identity fraud victims; and (3) at least two Identity Authentication Employment Eligibility Verification pilot programs using distinct technologies to provide employers with identity authentication and employment verification of new employees.

 Related & companion bills 4
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 17
All 17 Republican 7
R
Cloud, Michael
Texas · Sep 13, 2018
Holding, George
· Aug 3, 2018
Black, Diane
· Apr 18, 2018
Palazzo, Steven
· Jan 9, 2018
 R
Biggs, Andy
Arizona · Dec 19, 2017
Rokita, Todd
· Dec 13, 2017
 R
Babin, Brian
Texas · Dec 11, 2017
 R
Harris, Andy
Maryland · Dec 11, 2017
Meadows, Mark
· Dec 11, 2017
 R
Aderholt, Robert B.
Alabama · Dec 4, 2017
 R
Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Dec 4, 2017
 R
Norman, Ralph
South Carolina · Nov 29, 2017
Barletta, Lou
· Nov 24, 2017
Brooks, Mo
· Nov 16, 2017
Garrett, Thomas
· Nov 16, 2017
Duncan, Jeff
· Nov 15, 2017
SMITH, LAMAR
· Nov 9, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4340: American LAWS Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4340/
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"H.R. 4340: American LAWS Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4340/.
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H.R. 4340, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4340/.
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