A Senate amendment to the bill that includes LSC's FY 2006 appropriation would have relaxed the 1996 LSC immigration eligibility restriction, but it never received a vote. Introduced by Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) with Senators Kennedy (D-MA) and Leahy (D-VT), the amendment would have expanded the 1997 Kennedy Amendment, which waived the immigrant restriction for non-LSC-financed representation of immigrants in spousal or parental domestic violence cases. Had it become law, the Durbin Amendment would have allowed LSC grantees to use LSC or non-LSC funds to represent, regardless of immigration status, victims of any type of domestic violence (not limited to spousal or parental abuse) and victims of sexual assault and human trafficking. The Durbin Amendment made clear that it would not have limited the availability of legal assistance under the Victims of Trafficking Protection Act of 2000, which already authorizes LSC grantees to use any source of funding to represent trafficking victims.