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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 4717. Ms. BLUNT ROCHESTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1383, to establish the Veterans Advisory Committee on Equal Access, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . PROHIBITION ON CIVIL IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT
ACTIONS AT OR NEAR POLLING PLACES AND VOTER
REGISTRATION SITES.
(a) In General.—The Secretary of Homeland Security shall
not, and shall ensure that an officer, employee, or agent of
the Department of Homeland Security (including U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and
Border Protection) does not, at a covered location—
(1) conduct any civil immigration enforcement action;
(2) question any individual about citizenship or
immigration status;
(3) request any immigration document;
(4) conduct surveillance of any individual entering or
exiting a covered location; or
(5) station any officer, employee, agent, or vehicle of the
Department of Homeland Security in a manner that could
reasonably be expected to deter an individual from
registering to vote or casting a ballot.
(b) Exception.—Subsection (a) shall not apply in the case
of—
(1) the execution of a criminal warrant issued by a court
upon probable cause;
(2) hot pursuit of an individual who poses an imminent
threat of death or serious bodily harm; or
(3) conduct necessary to respond to an imminent threat of
death or serious bodily harm.
(c) Implementation Guidance.—Not later than 30 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General
and the Election Assistance Commission, shall issue guidance
for the implementation of subsection (a), including with
respect to training to be provided to officers, employees,
and agents of the Department of Homeland Security on
compliance with such subsection.
(d) Report.—In the case of an alleged violation of
subsection (a), not later than 30 days after the date on
which the alleged violation occurs, the Secretary of Homeland
Security shall submit to Congress and the Inspector General
of the Department of Homeland Security a notification of the
alleged violation.
(e) Rule of Construction.—Nothing in this section may be
construed—
(1) to prohibit, at a covered location, the conduct of
criminal law enforcement activities unrelated to immigration
status;
(2) to authorize intimidation, threats, coercion, or
interference with any individual registering to vote or
voting in a Federal election; or
(3) to permit inquiry into citizenship or immigration
status as a condition of entering a covered location, except
as expressly required by Federal law.
(f) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Civil enforcement action.—The term “civil enforcement
action”—
(A) means any arrest, detention, interview, questioning,
surveillance, search, service of a notice to appear or other
process, document check, or any other civil immigration-
related investigative or enforcement activity undertaken to
identify, apprehend, monitor, or deter an individual based on
actual or suspected immigration status; and
(B) includes the deployment of visible civil immigration
enforcement presence, including personnel or a vehicle, in a
manner that could reasonably be expected to deter an
individual from registering to vote or casting a ballot.
(2) Covered location.—The term “covered location”
means—
(A) a polling place;
(B) an early voting site;
(C) a voter registration site, including any office or
location at which in-person voter registration or election-
day registration for a Federal election is taking place;
(D) a location within 100 feet of an entrance or exit of a
location described in any of subparagraphs (A) through (C);
and
(E) a location within 100 feet of an individual waiting to
enter a location described in any of subparagraphs (A)
through (C).