To prohibit the expansion of immigration detention facilities, to improve the oversight of such facilities, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-5820House of Representatives
Updated: Jul 24, 2018

Summary

Detention Oversight, Not Expansion Act or the DONE Act This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from using federal funds to construct or expand immigration detention facilities. The bill provides for increased oversight of immigration detention facilities by the Inspector General of DHS, including through unannounced annual inspections, health and safety inspections, and audits to ensure compliance with protections against sexual abuse and violence against women. The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of DHS shall investigate civil rights and civil liberties complaints in immigration detention facilities.

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S-2849: A bill to prohibit the expansion of immigration detention facilities, to improve the oversight of such facilities, and for other purposes.

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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.

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  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.

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  4. Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

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