S.B. 81
         ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

senate floor Amendments

Amendment 8 February 20, 2008 4:06 pm



Senator John W. Hickman proposes the following amendments:

1.    Page 20, Lines 596 through 597
    Senate Committee Amendments
    2-12-2008 :
    

             596          
  Section S. [13] 10 .S . Section 76-10-2701 is enacted to read:

    PART 27. TRANSPORTING OR HARBORING OF ILLEGAL ALIENS
             597          76-10-2701.  
Transporting or harboring aliens -- Definition -- Penalty.


2.    Page 20, Lines 609 through 612
    Senate Committee Amendments
    2-12-2008 :
    

             609          (a) a state or local public benefit described in 8 U.S.C., Section 1621(b); or
             610          (b)
{   regulated public health services provided by a private charity using private funds.   }        charitable or humanitarian assistance, including medical care, housing, counseling, food, victim assistance, religious services and sacraments, and transportation to or from a location where the assistance is provided, by a charitable, educational, or religious organization or its employees, agents, or volunteers using private funds.

    (5)(a) It is not a violation of this part for a religious denomination or organization or an agent, officer, or member of a religious denomination or organization to encourage, invite, call, allow, or enable an alien to perform the vocation of a minister or missionary for the denomination or organization in the United States as a volunteer who is not compensated as an employee, notwithstanding the provision of room, board, travel, medical assistance, and other basic living expenses.
    (b) Subsection (5)(a) applies only to an alien who has been a member of the religious organization or denomination for at least one year.  

             611          Section S. [14] 11 .S . Coordinating S.B. 81 with H.B. 63 -- Technical renumbering.
             612          If this S.B. 81 and H.B. 63, Recodification of Title 63 State Affairs in General, both


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