[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6021 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6021

To prohibit the payment of settlement agreements in certain cases, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2021

   Mrs. Boebert (for herself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Perry, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
 Tiffany, Mr. Harris, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Biggs) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the payment of settlement agreements in certain cases, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``We're Not Paying You To Break Our 
Laws Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF SETTLEMENTS IN CERTAIN CASES.

    No amounts may be made available from the Treasury for the payment 
of any settlement agreement filed in the United States District Court 
for the District of Arizona in A.I.I.L. v. Sessions, 4:19-CV-00481, or 
any substantially similar civil action brought by an individual as a 
result of an action taken to enforce the memorandum of the Attorney 
General entitled ``Zero-Tolerance for Offenses Under 8 U.S.C. 
Sec. 1325(a)'', and dated April 6, 2018.
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