Stop Fraud by SOMALIA Act

This bill changes the federal child care grant law so that a child care provider with a final court or agency finding of fraud involving federal child care funds is permanently barred from federal child care assistance programs funded by the Department of Health and Human Services. The barred provider could not regain eligibility by changing its name, reorganizing, merging, or repaying the money. States would have to repay or lose administrative funds equal to the amount obtained through fraud. Cases based on administrative orders would be referred to the Attorney General for possible criminal prosecution. The bill also makes non-citizen providers barred for fraud deportable, inadmissible, and ineligible for asylum and green cards, and allows expedited removal and mandatory detention in these cases.

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Sponsors

• Pete Stauber Republican sponsor
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