Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act
Where it stands
- Introduced1/3/25
- Passed HousePassed 1/16/25
- Senate
- President
- Law
Passed the House 274–145 on January 16, 2025 (Roll Call 17 →). Received in the Senate on January 17, 2025. No Senate action since.
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Roll calls on this bill
- Democratic61 Yea · 145 Nay · 9 Not voting
- Republican213 Yea · 0 Nay · 6 Not voting
- Independent / Other0 Yea · 0 Nay · 0 Not voting
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.
What happens next
The Senate must pass the same text, then it goes to the President.
If it isn't enacted by Jan 3, 2027, it expires when the 119th Congress ends.
All actions (12)
- 1/3/25Introduced in House
- 1/3/25Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- 1/16/25Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 5. (consideration: CR H191-201)
- 1/16/25DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 30.
- 1/16/25The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
- 1/16/25Ms. Moore (WI) moved to recommit to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR H200)
- 1/16/25The previous question on the motion to recommit was ordered pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX.
- 1/16/25On motion to recommit Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 206 - 213 (Roll no. 16).
- 1/16/25Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- 1/16/25On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 274 - 145 (Roll no. 17). (text: CR H191)
- 1/16/25Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 1/17/25Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.