HR 30
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
Summary
Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U.S. nationals ( aliens under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U.S. national is deportable. First, the bill establishes that a non-U.S. national is inadmissible if the individual has admitted to or is convicted of acts constituting the essential elements of stalking, child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment, a sex offense, conspiracy to commit a sex offense, a violation of certain protection orders, or domestic violence (including physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships). Next, the bill establishes additional grounds for deportation. Under current law, a non-U.S. national is deportable for certain criminal convictions, including domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse. The bill makes any sex offense (including crimes against minors) or conspiracy to commit a sex offense a basis for deportation. The bill also expands the domestic violence crimes that make a non-U.S. national deportable to include physical or sexual abuse or a pattern of coercive behavior when it occurs within certain close relationships.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Nancy Mace [R-SC-1]
- Cosponsors
- 60
- Policy area
- Immigration
- Introduced
- 2025-01-03
- Latest action
- 2025-01-17: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-01-17: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2025-01-16: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-01-16: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- 2025-01-16: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- 2025-01-16: On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 206 - 213 (Roll no. 16).