Equal Protection in Travel Act of 2016

S.2449
Introduced: 
January 20, 2016
114
Second
January 20, 2016
Referred to Senate (sub)committee

Like the House’s version, H.R. 4380 of 1/13/16, this bill would largely repeal a controversial provision of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (*H.R. 2029 of 4/24/15), which originated in the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act (VWP) of 2015 (H.R. 158 of 1/6/15). The provision in question blocked visa-free entry to the U.S. for passport-holders of the VWP’s 38 participating countries if they hold dual citizenship with or have traveled, since 3/2011, to Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, a country determined by the secretary of state to have “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism,” or other any other country of concern.

3 cosponsors (3D).

Last major action: 1/20/16 referred to Senate Comm. on the Judiciary.

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