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S 4538 NY

Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Feb 6, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2026) REFERRED TO FINANCE

Summary

Enacts the building up immigrant legal defense or BUILD act to provide competitive workforce development and capacity building grants to eligible entities that are seeking to expand access to representation for individuals facing deportation by increasing the workforce and strengthening the legal services infrastructure needed to provide such representation.

Sponsor (1)

11 coauthors / cosponsors

Action history (2)

  1. Feb 6, 2025 REFERRED TO FINANCE · upper
  2. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO FINANCE · upper

Text versions (2)

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  • S4538 · HTML
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