To make unused EB3 visas available to bring nurses to the United States through Department of State procedures.

SA 379. Mrs. HUTCHISON (for herself and Mr. Schumer) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 1268, Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, to establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 231, between lines 3 and 4, insert the following new section:

VISAS FOR NURSES

Sec. 6047. Section 106(d) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-313; 8 U.S.C. 1153 note) is amended--

(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the end of the second sentence “and any such visa that is made available due to the difference between the number of employment-based visas that were made available in fiscal year 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2004 and the number of such visas that were actually used in such fiscal year shall be available only to employment-based immigrants, and the dependents of such immigrants, whose schedule A petition, as defined in section 656.5 of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, was approved by the Secretary of Labor”; and

(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking “and 2000” and inserting “through 2004”.