[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3550 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3550

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to refugee 
                      admission and resettlement.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2025

   Ms. Mace 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 with respect to refugee 
                      admission and resettlement.

    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 ``No Resettlement Without Representation 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY TO SET REFUGEE CAP.

    Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Except'' and 
                all that follows through the period at the end and 
                inserting the following: ``Before the beginning of a 
                fiscal year and after appropriate consultation (as 
                defined in subsection (e)), the President shall submit 
                to Congress a recommendation on the number of refugees 
                who may be admitted under this section in any fiscal 
                year.'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
                following:
    ``(2) Except as provided in subsection (b), no refugees may be 
admitted under this section in a fiscal year until such time as a joint 
resolution is enacted which sets the number of refugees who may be 
admitted under this section in that fiscal year.''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (4)--
                            (i) by striking ``determination'' and 
                        inserting ``recommendation'';
                            (ii) by striking ``(beginning with fiscal 
                        year 1992)'' and inserting ``(beginning with 
                        fiscal year 2025)''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``determined'' and 
                        inserting ``recommended'';
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``fix'' and inserting ``submit to 
                Congress a recommendation for'';
                    (B) by striking ``situation and such'' and 
                inserting ``situation. Any such'';
                    (C) by striking ``determination made by the 
                President'' and insert ``recommendation made by the 
                President''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following: ``No 
                refugees may be admitted under this subsection until 
                such time as a joint resolution is enacted which sets 
                the number of refugees who may be admitted under this 
                subsection.'';
            (3) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``Subject to the 
        numerical limitations established pursuant to subsections (a) 
        and (b),'' and inserting ``Subject to the enactment of a joint 
        resolution under subsection (a) or (b), and the numerical 
        limitations established pursuant to such a resolution,''; and
            (4) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ``determination'' 
        each place it appears and inserting ``recommendation''.

SEC. 3. STATES AUTHORITY TO REJECT REFUGEES.

    Section 412 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Limitation on Resettlement.--(1) Not later than 30 days 
before the date on which a refugee is to be resettled in a State, the 
Director or Federal agency administering subsection (b)(1) shall submit 
to the chief executive of the State in which resettlement is to take 
place a notice of the intention to resettle aliens in such State.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the 
Director or the Federal agency administering subsection (b)(1) may not 
resettle any refugee or coordinate placement of any refugee in a State 
if the chief executive of the State communicates to the Director that 
the State does not accede to the resettlement or placement of refugees 
in that State.''.
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