[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1075 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1075

To withhold funding authorized under the American Rescue Plan Act from 
  any State or unit of local government that provides relief funds or 
   monetary payments through a program exclusively targeting illegal 
                              immigrants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 12, 2021

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To withhold funding authorized under the American Rescue Plan Act from 
  any State or unit of local government that provides relief funds or 
   monetary payments through a program exclusively targeting illegal 
                              immigrants.

    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 ``No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF THE USE OF FUNDS TO OFFSET PAYMENTS TO ILLEGAL 
              ALIENS.

    (a) In General.--Title IX of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
(Public Law 117-2) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 9913. PROHIBITION OF USE OF FUNDS TO OFFSET PAYMENTS TO ILLEGAL 
              ALIENS.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any amendment 
made by this Act, no funds made available under this Act, or by any 
amendment made by this Act, may be made available to a State or a unit 
of local government unless the State or local government certifies that 
it is not providing relief funds or monetary payments that are targeted 
exclusively to individuals who are believed to be unlawfully present in 
the United States.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to any funds made available under the American Rescue Plan Act of 
2021 (Public Law 117-2) on or after the date of the enactment of such 
Act.
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