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Labor Certainty for Food Security Act of 2020
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Labor Certainty for Food Security Act of 2020 This bill establishes a new H-2C nonimmigrant visa for aliens coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor, directs the Department of Homeland Security to create a mandatory electronic employment eligibility verification system, and modifies the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural workers.
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2020 · first_quarter · Immigration
H.R.5038- Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 (bill to provide a path to legalization to our nation's farmworkers, reform the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program for farmworkers and farmers, and require E-verify in agriculture). [Support] H.R.6083- To create a non-immigrant H-2C work visa program for agricultural workers, to make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system, and for other purposes. [Oppose]
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
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Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · first_quarter · Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
Discussed H.R. 6083, To create a nonimmigrant H-2C work visa program for agricultural workers, to make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system, and for other purposes Discussed processing of H-2A visa applications in response to delays related to COVID-19, and offering flexibility in the program to help farmers fill labor needs
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Government targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
| Referred to |
| March 4, 2020 |
| Democratic |
| HI |
| Glenn Thompson | Republican | PA |
| Michael T. McCaul | Republican | TX |
| Mike Kelly | Republican | PA |
| Neal P. Dunn | Republican | FL |
| Ralph Norman | Republican | SC |
| Ted Budd | Republican | NC |
| Vicky Hartzler | Republican | MO |