Labor Certainty for Food Security Act of 2020

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.

Subjects

Immigration

Summary

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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Related Legislation

H.R. 250Legal Workforce Act
2019-01-04Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.
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Legislative Actions

2020-03-04
Introduced in House
2020-03-04
Introduced in House
2020-03-04
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.
2020-03-04
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.
2020-03-04
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.
2020-03-04
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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