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Kate's Law
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise provisions relating to the reentry of removed aliens.
The bill provides that an alien who has been excluded, deported, removed, or denied admission, or who has departed the United States while under an outstanding order of exclusion, deportation, or removal, and who subsequently crosses or attempts to cross the border into the United States, shall be fined, imprisoned not more than two years, or both. ("Crosses the border" refers to the physical act of crossing the border, regardless of whether the alien is free from official restraint.)
The bill revises reentry of criminal offender provisions to provide that an alien who was convicted before such removal or departure of:
three or more misdemeanors or for a felony shall be fined, imprisoned up to 10 years, or both;
An alien who has been excluded, deported, removed, or denied admission three or more times and thereafter enters, attempts to enter, or crosses or attempts to cross the border to, or is at any time found in, the United States shall be fined, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
The bill states that it shall be an affirmative defense to a reentry violation (thus placing the burden of proof on the defendant) that: (1) prior to the alleged violation, the alien had received Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consent to reapply for U.S. admission; or (2) with respect to an alien previously denied admission and removed, the alien was not required to obtain such advance consent and had complied with all other applicable admissions laws and regulations.
In a criminal proceeding under this section, an alien may not challenge the validity of any prior removal order. (Currently, the validity of a prior deportation order may be challenged under certain grounds.)
A removed alien who enters, attempts to enter, or crosses or attempts to cross the border to, or is at any time found in, the United States shall be incarcerated for the remainder of the sentence that was pending at the time of deportation without any reduction for parole or supervised release unless the alien affirmatively demonstrates that DHS has consented to the alien's reentry.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 3004 as passed House without amendment on Jun 29, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jun 29, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJun 29, 2017
House Jun 29, 2017 · the primary vote
Kate’s Law
Passed
257 Yea 167 Nay 9 not voting
Party-line vote 25 of 424 voting members broke with their own party: 24 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 3004 and vote against it. 2 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 3004 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
49 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.