S.Amdt. 1972

SA 1972. Mr. SESSIONS (for Mr. Vitter) 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1085. CITIZENSHIP AT BIRTH FOR CERTAIN PERSONS BORN IN
THE UNITED STATES.

(a) In General.--Section 301 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401) is amended--

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(1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``The
following'';
(2) by redesignating subsections (a) through (h) as
paragraphs (1) through (8), respectively, and indenting such
paragraphs, as redesignated, an additional 2 ems to the
right; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(b) Definition.--Acknowledging the right of birthright
citizenship established by section 1 of the 14th Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, a person born in the
United States shall be considered `subject to the
jurisdiction' of the United States for purposes of subsection
(a)(1) only if the person is born in the United States and at
least 1 of the person's parents is--
``(1) a citizen or national of the United States;
``(2) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in
the United States whose residence is in the United States; or
``(3) an alien performing active service in the armed
forces (as defined in section 101 of title 10, United States
Code).''.
(b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)(3)
may not be construed to affect the citizenship or nationality
status of any person born before the date of the enactment of
this Act.
(c) Severability.--If any provision of this section or any
amendment made by this section, or any application of such
provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held
to be unconstitutional, the remainder of the provisions of
this Act and the amendments made by this Act and the
application of the provision or amendment to any other person
or circumstance shall not be affected.
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