Authorize sitting governors to conduct health and safety oversight inspections of immigration detention facilities within their states and require reporting to Congress on conditions found.

H.R.9271 Cosponsored — To authorize sitting Governors to conduct health and safety oversight inspections of immigration detention facilities located within their states, and to establish a reporting mechanism to Congress on conditions found therein.

Cosponsored legislation giving governors inspection authority over in-state immigration detention facilities and requiring reporting to Congress.

Legislation
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Section 527 bars DHS funds from being used to prevent a Member of Congress or designated House/Senate employee from entering DHS facilities used to detain or house aliens for oversight, and says Members of Congress need not provide prior notice.

Federal law created/continued access for congressional oversight visits to DHS immigration detention facilities, but the text covers Members of Congress and designated congressional employees, not state governors, and it does not create a governor-to-Congress reporting requirement.

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Public Law 118-47, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Division C, Sec. 527
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Congress.gov lists H.R.5383 as introduced by Rep. Jesus G. Garcia on 12/10/2019, referred to the House Judiciary Committee, with latest action on 01/30/2020 referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. CRS summary says the bill would make immigration-enforcement changes including ending mandatory detention in certain cases and barring DHS contracts with public or private for-profit entities to detain aliens.

Watson Coleman backed broader detention-reform legislation, but the bill did not become law and does not prove the specific governor inspection/reporting promise was enacted.

partial later_term A for effort

H.R.5383 - New Way Forward Act, 116th Congress
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] as an original cosponsor of H.R.5383 on 12/10/2019.

This confirms concrete legislative effort by Watson Coleman on immigration detention reform, but not delivery of governor inspection authority or mandatory reports to Congress.

partial later_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.R.5383 - New Way Forward Act, 116th Congress
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The Washington Post reported that Rep. LaMonica McIver, with Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and Robert Menendez Jr., planned to introduce a bill to strengthen congressional oversight protections for immigration detention visits, requiring DHS and contractors to grant Members of Congress immediate access and train facility staff.

Watson Coleman continued concrete action toward detention-facility oversight in 2026, but the proposal concerned congressional access, not governors, and was reported as unlikely to pass in the Republican-controlled House.

partial later_term A for effort

Lawmaker pushes for more ICE oversight after indictment for visit
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Sec. 524 addresses public posting of reports required by House and Senate Appropriations Committees. Sec. 527 addresses facility-entry oversight by Members of Congress and designated congressional employees only.

The relevant enacted DHS appropriations provisions include congressional access and general report-posting language, but they do not require sitting governors to inspect immigration detention facilities within their states and report conditions to Congress.

never later_term

Public Law 118-47, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Division C, Sec. 527
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