COVID–19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act

Bill: 116-hr-6507
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2020-04-14
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Foreign labor

Government information and archives

Immigration status and procedures

Infectious and parasitic diseases
Latest action: action_date: 2020-04-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-04-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>COVID-19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act</b></p> <p>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. </p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6507 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 14, 2020 Ms. Meng (for herself, Ms. Velázquez , Mr. McGovern , Mr. Cárdenas , Ms. Norton , Mr. García 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the COVID–19 Employment Authorization Document Extension Act . 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. 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.