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PUBLIC LAW 106-215-JUNE 15, 2000 114 STAT. 337 Public Law 106-215 106th Congress An Act To amend section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, and for other purposes. 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 "Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000". SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 110 OF URIRA. (a) IN GENERAL. —Section 110 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1221 note) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 110. INTEGRATED ENTRY AND EXIT DATA SYSTEM. "(a) REQUIREMENT. —The Attorney General shall implement an integrated entry and exit data system. " (b) INTEGRATED ENTRY AND EXIT DATA SYSTEM DEFINED. —For purposes of this section, the term 'integrated entry and exit data system' means an electronic system that— "(1) provides access to, and integrates, alien arrival and departure data that are— "(A) authorized or required to be created or collected under law; "(B) in an electronic format; and "(C) in a data base of the Department of Justice or the Department of State, including those created or used at ports of entry and at consular offices; "(2) uses available data described in paragraph (1) to produce a report of arriving and departing aliens by country of nationality, classification as an immigrant or nonimmigrant, and date of arrival in, and departure from, the United States; "(3) matches an alien's available arrival data with the alien's available departure data; "(4) assists the Attorney General (and the Secretary of State, to the extent necessary to carry out such Secretary's obligations under immigration law) to identify, through online searching procedures, lawfully admitted nonimmigrants who may have remained in the United States beyond the period authorized by the Attorney General; and "(5) otherwise uses available alien arrival and departure data described in paragraph (1) to permit the Attorney General to make the reports required under subsection (e). " (c) CONSTRUCTION. — June 15, 2000 [H.R. 4489] Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of2000. 8 USC 1101 note. 8 USC 1365a.