Returning Worker Accountability Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-798
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]
Introduced: 2019-01-25
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Foreign labor

Immigration status and procedures

Temporary and part-time employment

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2019-03-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Returning Worker Accountability Act of 2019 </strong></p> <p>This bill exempts from the annual cap on nonimmigrant H-2B visas (temporary nonagricultural services) all returning workers who were already counted toward such cap during any of the preceding three fiscal years. </p> </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 798 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 25, 2019 Mr. Higgins of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the exception for returning workers permanent, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Returning Worker Accountability Act of 2019 . 2. Returning worker exception made permanent Section 214(g)(9)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(9)(A) ) is amended by striking who has already been counted toward the numerical limitation of paragraph (1)(B) during fiscal year 2013, 2014, or 2015 shall not again be counted toward such limitation during fiscal year 2016 and inserting shall not be counted toward the numerical limitation of paragraph (1)(B) for a fiscal year if that alien has already been counted toward such limitation during any of the 3 fiscal years immediately preceding that fiscal year .