HR 4156 United States House · 118th Congress

Lady Liberty Act of 2023

Summary

Lady Liberty Act of 2023 This bill sets a floor of 125,000 for the maximum number of refugees who may be admitted into the United States each fiscal year. Under current law, the President sets the annual cap on refugee admissions at the beginning of each fiscal year. (The cap for FY2023 was 125,000, but in some years it had been lower. For example, the cap for FY2021 was 15,000.)

Issues: ✓ Immigration

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jun 2023

Committee Review

Floor Vote

President

Introduced Jun 15, 2023 Last action Jun 15, 2023

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Committee

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Jun 15, 2023

Committee

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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Jun 15, 2023

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

1 primary · 25 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role

Legislator

Party

State

District

Gerald E. Connolly

Adriano Espaillat

Bill Pascrell, Jr.

Bonnie Watson Coleman

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Donald S. Beyer, Jr.