No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens Act

II 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 3796 To withhold funding authorized under the CARES Act from any State or municipality that provides economic stimulus payments through a pro- gram designed to exclusively assist illegal aliens. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES MAY 21, 2020 Mr. COTTON introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations A BILL To withhold funding authorized under the CARES Act from any State or municipality that provides economic stim- ulus payments through a program designed to exclusively assist illegal aliens. 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 the ‘‘No Bailouts for Illegal 4 Aliens Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:11 Jun 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3796.IS S3796 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •S 3796 IS SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS TO OFFSET 1 STIMULUS CHECKS TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. 2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title XIII of the Emergency Ap- 3 propriations for Coronavirus Health Response and Agency 4 Operations (division B of Public Law 116–136) is amend- 5 ed— 6 (1) by redesignating section 23008 as section 7 23009; and 8 (2) by inserting after section 23007 the fol- 9 lowing: 10 ‘‘SEC. 23008. Notwithstanding any other provision of 11 this Act or any amendment made by this Act, no funds 12 made available under this Act or by any amendment made 13 by this Act, may be made available to a State or munici- 14 pality (as such terms are defined in section 4002 of divi- 15 sion A) unless the State or municipality has certified that 16 it is not providing relief funds or similar monetary pay- 17 ments of any kind that are targeted exclusively to individ- 18 uals who are believed to be unlawfully present in the 19 United States.’’. 20 (b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by sub- 21 section (a)(2) shall apply to any funds made available 22 under the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136) on or after 23 the date of the enactment of that Act. 24 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:11 Jun 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S3796.IS S3796 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS