Kate’s Law

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 384 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the penalties applicable to aliens who unlawfully reenter the United States after being removed. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 9, 2019 Mr. KING of Iowa (for himself, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. JONES, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. ZELDIN, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. HICE of Georgia, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. BACON, Mr. BROOKS of Ala- bama, and Mr. KELLY of Mississippi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the penalties applicable to aliens who unlawfully reenter the United States after being removed. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as ‘‘Kate’s Law’’ or as the 4 ‘‘Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry 5 Act of 2019’’. 6 VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:05 Jan 19, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H384.IH H384 pbinns on DSK79D2C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 384 IH SEC. 2. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR REENTRY OF RE- 1 MOVED ALIENS. 2 Section 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 3 (8 U.S.C. 1326) is amended— 4 (1) in subsection (a), in the matter following 5 paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘fined under title 18, 6 United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 2 7 years, or both’’ and inserting ‘‘imprisoned not less 8 than 5 years and not more than 6 years’’; and 9 (2) in subsection (b)— 10 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘fined 11 under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned 12 not more than 10 years, or both’’ and inserting 13 ‘‘imprisoned not less than 5 and not more than 14 10 years, and may, in addition, be fined under 15 title 18, United States Code’’; 16 (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘fined 17 under such title, imprisoned not more than 20 18 years, or both’’ and inserting ‘‘imprisoned not 19 less than 5 and not more than 20 years and 20 may, in addition, be fined under such title’’; 21 and 22 (C) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘fined 23 under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned 24 for not more than 10 years, or both’’ and in- 25 serting ‘‘imprisoned for not less than 5 and not 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:05 Jan 19, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H384.IH H384 pbinns on DSK79D2C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 384 IH more than 10 years and may, in addition, be 1 fined under such title’’. 2 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:05 Jan 19, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H384.IH H384 pbinns on DSK79D2C42PROD with BILLS