Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “American Dream Employment Act of 2017”.
American Dream Employment Act of 2017
A BILL
To amend the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016, to enable the payment of certain officers and employees of the United States whose employment is authorized under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Certain Federal employees who are beneficiaries of DACA authorized to be paid
Section 704 of title VII of division E of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113) is amended—
by striking “eligible; or” and inserting “eligible;”; and
by striking the semicolon after “owes allegiance to the United States” and inserting the following: “; or (5) is a person who is employed by the House of Representatives or the Senate, and has been issued an employment authorization document under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program of the Secretary of Homeland Security, established pursuant to the memorandum from the Secretary of Homeland Security entitled “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children”, dated June 15, 2012:”.