S.Amdt. 1969

SA 1969. Mr. SESSIONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PRESERVING THE INTEGRITY OF THE EARNED INCOME TAX
CREDIT.

(a) In General.--Paragraph (1) of section 32(c) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end
the following new subparagraph:
``(G) Prohibition on provision of credit to certain
immigrants.--
``(i) In general.--In the case of any alien not described
in clause (ii), no credit shall be allowed under this section
for any taxable year.
``(ii) Authorized aliens.--An alien is described in this
clause if such alien--

``(I) is lawfully admitted for permanent residence,
``(II) otherwise has lawful status and is authorized to be
employed in the United States pursuant to an affirmative
grant of such authority under the immigration laws, or
``(III) is otherwise lawfully present in the United States,
but only if such lawful presence is based on an affirmative
grant of withholding of removal pursuant to section 214(b)(3)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3))
or an affirmative grant of withholding or deferral of removal
pursuant to Article 3 of the Convention against Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
done at New York December 10, 1984.''.

(b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31,
2014.
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