S.Amdt. 3660

SA 3660. Mr. LEAHY (for himself, Mr. Coleman, and Ms. Murkowski) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 253, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:

INELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION FOR ALIENS

Sec. 7032. Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is amended--

(1) in clause (vi)(III), by striking ”which” before “engages in, or has a subgroup” and inserting in lieu thereof “that the Secretary of the State, in consultation with or upon the request of the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security, has certified”; and

(2) by adding at the end, the following new clause:

“(vii) Exception for involuntary material support.--An individual has not provided material support for the purposes of subclause (VI) of clause (iv) if the individual establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer when applying for a visa (or to the satisfaction of the Attorney General or Secretary of Homeland Security when applying for admission) that such support was involuntary or for purposes of protecting the alien or another person from the use of, or the threat of, unlawful force that a reasonable person in the alien's situation would not have resisted.”.