Cosponsor
Sign in

HR 4393 · in committee · major

DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill creates pathways to legal status for some undocumented immigrants and establishes a renewable deferral program for those meeting work or education requirements.
  • The bill affects undocumented immigrants, employers, Border Patrol agents, and families seeking to sponsor relatives for immigration.
  • It requires a mandatory electronic employment verification system and increases penalties for illegal reentry, with implementation by the Department of Homeland Security.

Generated by claude-haiku-4-5

Community Threads

Started by Cosponsor

  1. 01

    How would the mandatory electronic employment verification system affect small businesses that currently rely on manual hiring processes?

  2. 02

    What criteria determine which undocumented immigrants qualify for the renewable deferral program, and who decides if someone meets those work or education requirements?

  3. 03

    How do the increased penalties for illegal reentry balance against the new legal status pathways, and what evidence supports this approach's effectiveness?

Cosponsor writes these to seed civic discussion — they aren't user posts. Sign in to reply.

Sponsor · R-FL-27

Maria Elvira Salazar

Citizen cosponsors

0

In Congress

39/ 435

House Reps cosponsoring

Introduced 2025-07-15

Joining the bill

+ 27 more

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  2. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  5. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  6. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  7. 2025-07-15 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  8. 2025-07-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  9. 2025-07-15 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

Congress.gov ↗

Citizen comments

Sign in to comment on this bill.

No comments yet — be the first.