Protecting Sensitive Locations Act
Summary
Protecting Sensitive Locations Act This bill prohibits immigration enforcement actions within 1,000 feet of a sensitive location except in exigent circumstances. Sensitive locations include health care facilities; schools and school bus stops; places that provide assistance for people such as children, pregnant women, and abuse victims; places that provide disaster or emergency services; places of worship; courthouses and lawyers’ offices; facilities used as polling places; certain labor union facilities; and public assistance offices. The prohibition shall apply to Department of Homeland Security officers and agents, as well as state employees pursuing immigration enforcement actions. If an enforcement action is carried out in violation of this prohibition, (1) no information resulting from the action may be entered into the record in a resulting removal proceeding, and (2) the affected individual may move to immediately terminate such a proceeding. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall annually report to Congress about enforcement actions taken at sensitive locations in the preceding year.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Aug 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Aug 8, 2023
Last action Aug 8, 2023
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Committee
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Aug 8, 2023
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
lower
Aug 8, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Adriano Espaillat
DDemocratic
Co
Delia C. Ramirez
DDemocratic
Co
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
James P. McGovern
DDemocratic
Co
Janice D. Schakowsky
DDemocratic
Co
Jasmine Crockett
DDemocratic
Co
Jesús G. "Chuy" García
DDemocratic
Co
Lloyd Doggett
DDemocratic
Co
Mark Pocan
DDemocratic
Co
Nydia M. Velázquez
DDemocratic
Co
Pramila Jayapal
DDemocratic
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