1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Accountability for Migrant Deaths Act of 2019 . 2. Congressional notification of foreign national deaths in custody Not later than 24 hours after a foreign national dies while in the custody of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the appropriate Secretary shall notify Congress of such death, which notification shall include a description of the circumstances of such death. 3. Limitation on the assertion of Executive privilege The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Health and Human Services may not assert Executive privilege with respect to testimony before a committee of the House of Representatives or of the Senate related to a death described in section 2. 4. Committee hearings on foreign national deaths in custody required in the House (a) Amendment to the Rules of the House of Representatives Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by adding at the end the following new clause: Committee hearings on foreign national deaths in custody required (7) Not later than one week after receiving a notification under section 1 of the Accountability for Migrant Deaths Act of 2019 that a foreign national died while in the custody of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform or another standing committee of jurisdiction shall convene a hearing to receive testimony from appropriate agency officials related to the death. . (b) Exercise of rulemaking power The provisions of this section are enacted by the Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of the House, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith