Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Community Assent for Refugee Entry Act or the CARE Act.
Section 2. Limitation on refugee resettlement
Section 412 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(g) Limitation on resettlement
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, for a fiscal year, the resettlement of any refugee may not be provided for—
(1) in any State where the Governor of that State, or the State legislature, has taken any action formally disapproving of resettlement in that State; or
(2) in any locality where the chief executive of that locality’s government, or the local legislature, has taken any action formally disapproving of resettlement in that locality.