Temporary Agricultural Worker Act of 1997 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a 24-month pilot program for the U.S. admission of temporary or seasonal agricultural workers based upon an employer labor condition attestation filed with the appropriate State agency. Sets forth program provisions.
Establishes a trust fund in the Treasury to assure the return of such workers to their home countries.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Judiciary
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Ways and Means, 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.
Referred to House Agriculture
Referred to House Ways and Means
Referred to House Commerce
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
See H.R.3410.
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