Title: COVID–19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act
This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security to automatically extend an alien's employment authorization if the authorization was valid when a public health emergency period begins. This extended authorization shall be valid until at least one year after the end of the emergency period.
This extension shall apply retroactively to any alien with employment authorization on January 31, 2020, and the end of such an extension shall be calculated using the date when the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency period ends.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6507 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6507

 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to automatically extend 
the period of validity of an alien's employment authorization during an 
               emergency period, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2020

 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. 
    Norton, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. 
Cisneros, Ms. Titus, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
  Jayapal, and Mr. Johnson of Georgia) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to automatically extend 
the period of validity of an alien's employment authorization during an 
               emergency period, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``COVID-19 Employment Authorization 
Document Extension Act''.

SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION EXTENSION.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall automatically extend the validity of an alien's 
employment authorization for an alien with an employment authorization 
document that is valid on the date on which an emergency period (as 
such term is defined in section 1135(g) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1320b-5(g))) based on a public health emergency begins, for a 
period that expires not earlier than the date that is one year after 
the date on which the emergency period ends.

SEC. 3. RETROACTIVE APPLICATION TO COVID-19 EMERGENCY PERIOD.

    The requirement under section 2 shall apply with respect to any 
alien who had a valid employment authorization document on January 31, 
2020, and the employment authorization for each such alien shall be 
extended in accordance with such section based on the date on which the 
emergency period related to the COVID-19 public health emergency ends.
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