Naturalization Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4105 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4105

    To include any felony conviction as a ground for revocation of 
 naturalization, to strike the 5-year limitation on the revocation of 
  naturalization for membership in certain totalitarian or treasonous 
 organizations, and to eliminate the 10-year statute of limitation for 
    certain criminal penalties that would disqualify a person from 
                            naturalization.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 17, 2026

  Mr. Cotton introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

 
    To include any felony conviction as a ground for revocation of 
 naturalization, to strike the 5-year limitation on the revocation of 
  naturalization for membership in certain totalitarian or treasonous 
 organizations, and to eliminate the 10-year statute of limitation for 
    certain criminal penalties that would disqualify a person from 
                            naturalization.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Naturalization Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. REVOCATION OF NATURALIZATION.

    Section 340(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1451) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``shall within five years next following 
        such naturalization become'' and inserting ``becomes''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or has been convicted at any time of any 
        felony,'' after ``section 313,''.

SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF 10-YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATION FOR CRIMINAL 
              PENALTIES FOR PROCUREMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR 
              NATURALIZATION UNLAWFULLY.

    Section 3291 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``No person'' and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Ten-Year Limitation.--No person'';
            (2) by striking ``sections 1423 to 1428'' and inserting 
        ``sections 1423, 1424, and 1426 to 1428''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) No Limitation.--Notwithstanding any other law, an indictment 
may be found or an information instituted at any time without 
limitation for any offense under section 1425.''.
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