About the bill
The president couldn’t even discriminate against the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Context
President Donald Trump instituted a travel ban on eight countries: Chad, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. The Supreme Court upheld the travel ban 5–4 in the 2018 decision Trump v. Hawaii, largely by noting the wide latitude that the president has when setting such policies.
Trump’s travel ban was popularly nicknamed “the Muslim ban” by its Democratic critics since most of the countries it applied to were majority Muslim, and because Trump as a 2016 candidate had indeed proposed a Muslim ban. However, the final policy itself wasn’t actually a ban on Muslims themselves from setting foot in the U.S. Regardless, President Joe Biden rescinded the policy on his …
Sponsor and status
117th Congress (2021–2023)
This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on April 21, 2021 but was never passed by the Senate.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
159 Cosponsors (159 Democrats)
Position statements
Statement of Administration Policy
President Joseph Biden [D]: H.R. 1333 – National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act (Apr 20, 2021)
History
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Feb 12, 2020
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Earlier Version —
Ordered Reported
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 2214 (116th). |
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Feb 25, 2021
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Introduced
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Apr 14, 2021
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Ordered Reported
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Apr 16, 2021
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Reported by House Committee on the Judiciary
A committee issued a report on the bill, which often provides helpful explanatory background on the issue addressed by the bill and the bill's intentions. |
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Apr 17, 2021
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Text Published
Updated bill text was published as of Preprint (Rule). |
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Apr 21, 2021
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Passed House (Senate next)
The bill was passed in a vote in the House. It goes to the Senate next. |
H.R. 1333 (117th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 1333. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 117th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2021 to Jan 3, 2023. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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