[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 977 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 977

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a minimum 
number of refugees who may be admitted in any fiscal year after fiscal 
                   year 2022, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 2021

Mr. Connolly (for himself, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Cicilline, 
  Mr. Cohen, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. DeGette, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. 
   Deutch, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Escobar, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. 
 Foster, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. 
Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnson 
of Georgia, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of 
Michigan, Mr. Lieu, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, 
 Mr. Moulton, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Ms. Omar, Mr. Pallone, Mr. 
 Panetta, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Peters, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Raskin, Miss Rice 
of New York, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Rush, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Scott of 
 Virginia, Mr. Sires, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Vargas, 
 Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, 
Mr. Green of Texas, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Suozzi, and Mr. Keating) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for a minimum 
number of refugees who may be admitted in any fiscal year after fiscal 
                   year 2022, 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 ``Lady Liberty Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM NUMBER OF REFUGEES TO BE ADMITTED.

    Section 207(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1157(a)) is amended by inserting after ``in any fiscal year after 
fiscal year 1982 shall be such number as the President determines,'' 
the following: ``except that in any fiscal year after fiscal year 2022, 
such number may not be less than 125,000, without regard to whether or 
not the President makes any determination''.
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