119-hr203

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 203 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 203

 To withhold Federal highway funds from States that provide driver's 
 licenses or identification cards to aliens who are unlawfully present 
 in the United States, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 January 3, 2025

 Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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 A BILL

 To withhold Federal highway funds from States that provide driver's 
 licenses or identification cards to aliens who are unlawfully present 
 in the United States, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Red Light Act''.

SEC. 2. WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS FOR PROVIDING IDENTIFICATION CARDS TO 
 CERTAIN ALIENS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``

Sec. 180. Withholding of funds for providing identification cards to 
 certain aliens
 ``

    (a) Withholding of Funds for Noncompliance.--For fiscal year 2023 
and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary shall withhold 100 
percent of the amount required to be apportioned under each of sections 
104

    (b)

    (1) , 104

    (b)

    (3) , and 104

    (b)

    (4) of this title to any State that is 
described in subsection

    (b) .
 ``

    (b) State Described.--A State described in this subsection is a 
State that has enacted a law that allows the State to provide a 
driver's license or other identification card to an alien who is 
unlawfully present in the United States.
 ``
            (c) Effect of Withholding Funds.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--Any funds withheld under subsection

    (a) from apportionment to any State shall remain available until 
 the end of the fiscal year for which the funds are apportioned.
 ``

    (2) Reapportionment.--If, before the last day of the 
 fiscal year for which funds withheld under subsection

    (a) are 
 apportioned to a State, the State repeals all laws of such 
 State described in subsection

    (b) , the Secretary shall, on the 
 first day on which the State repeals all such laws, apportion 
 to the State the funds withheld under subsection

    (a) that 
 remain available for apportionment to the State.
 ``

    (3) Apportionment among states.--If, at the end of the 
 fiscal year in which funds are withheld from a State under 
 paragraph

    (1) , the State has not repealed the law described in 
 subsection

    (b) , the Secretary shall apportion the corresponding 
 withheld funds described in subsection

    (a) on a proportional 
 basis to all remaining States that have not enacted laws 
 described in subsection

    (b) .
 ``

    (4) Withholding in future year.--In the case in which a 
 State has funds withheld under paragraph

    (1) and is 
 reapportioned funds under paragraph

    (2) and subsequently enacts 
 a law described in subsection

    (b) after the date on which the 
 funds are reapportioned under paragraph

    (2) , the Secretary 
 shall withhold the amount of funds withheld under subsection

    (a) in the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which such 
 actions occur and each fiscal year thereafter.
 ``
            (d) Identification Card Defined.--The term `identification card' 
means a personal identification card, as defined in 

section 1028
            (d) of 
title 18, United States Code, issued by a State.''.

    (b) Clerical Amendment.--Chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, 
in the table of contents is amended by adding at the end the following:

``180. Withholding of funds for providing identification cards to 
 certain aliens.''.
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