To amend Public Law 94-241 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase the number of permits that are available for employers in Construction and Extraction Occupations seeking Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6906
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2022-03-02
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, by the request of the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, to increase the annual cap on nonimmigrants permitted to perform construction work associated with preparation for or recovery from a major disaster or emergency in the Northern Mariana Islands.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6906 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2022 Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary , 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 A BILL To amend Public Law 94–241 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to increase the number of permits that are available for employers in Construction and Extraction Occupations seeking Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers, and for other purposes.

1. Permits for employers in Construction and Extraction Occupations seeking Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers Section 6(d)(3)(E)(i) of Public Law 94–241 ( 48 U.S.C. 1806(d)(3)(E)(i) ) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: , and for any succeeding fiscal year, the Secretary may increase the total number of such permits available by a number determined appropriate by the Secretary, at the request of the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands .