{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-30","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 30","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable."},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act"},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed sex offenses or domestic violence are inadmissible and deportable."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-01-03","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-01-16","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h17","question":"On Passage","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act","result":"Passed","yea":274,"nay":145,"present":0,"not_voting":15,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll017.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.","date":"2025-01-17"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2025-01-16","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act","result":"Failed","yea":206,"nay":213,"present":0,"not_voting":15,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll016.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-01-03","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act"},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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)."},{"k":"p","t":"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."}],"words":184},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to add sex offenses, domestic violence, stalking, child abuse and protection-order violations as grounds of inadmissibility, and to add sex offenses and a broader domestic violence definition as grounds of deportability.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}]},"core_areas":["Criminal grounds of inadmissibility under the Immigration and Nationality Act","Criminal grounds of deportability under the Immigration and Nationality Act"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Makes inadmissible any alien who has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits acts that are the essential elements of a sex offense or a conspiracy to commit one, using the definition in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}},{"text":"Makes inadmissible any alien who has been convicted of, admits having committed, or admits acts that are the essential elements of a crime of domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, child neglect, or child abandonment.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}},{"text":"Makes inadmissible any alien convicted of, or admitting the essential elements of, violating the part of a protection order that protects against credible threats of violence, repeated harassment, or bodily injury.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}},{"text":"Makes deportable any alien who has been convicted of a sex offense, as defined in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, or of a conspiracy to commit such an offense.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}},{"text":"Expands the deportability provision on crimes of domestic violence to include any crime that constitutes domestic violence as defined in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, whether or not the jurisdiction receives grant funding under that Act.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh#HEECA2C07CCCE4372B0D892B6674211AB"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-01-16","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/30/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-30.png","v":"bfe6e8c6dae4","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 30, 119th Congress: Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act. House: 274 Yea, 145 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 16 Jan 2025."}}