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Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 116th Congress: Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019 H.R. 5038: November 12, 2019 Zoe Lofgren(D-CA) 62 Passed in the House (260 - 165). [8] H.R. 4916: September 30, 2019 46 Died in Committee 117th Congress: Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 H.R. 1537: March 3, 2021
Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for terms and conditions for nonimmigrant workers performing agricultural labor or services, and for other purposes. H.R. 1619: March 8, 2021: Catawba Indian Nation Lands Act
The bill would create a pathway to legal status for foreign workers who are continually employed in agriculture and modify the H-2A program to be more responsive to the forces of supply and demand ...
He’s hopeful that a bipartisan bill, called The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, can somehow make it through a divided Congress. In the meantime, he’s at the whim of whoever pulls into his ...
Farmers across the U.S. are joining a push for national immigration reform that they say could ease labor shortages and lower food prices as surging production
The American Dream and Promise Act and Farm Workforce Modernization Act passed the House of Representatives in 2021, as they had in 2019, with support from Biden. Attempts to pass any of these bills in the Senate was blocked by Republican opposition, and parliamentary rulings that immigration policy changes could not be passed under ...
The spending agreement also includes a one-year extension of the farm bill – a sweeping package that governs many agricultural and nutrition assistance programs. Typically, the bill is renewed ...
Democrats have indicated they are unlikely to take up this bill immediately, instead focusing on advancing piecemeal legislation in the form of the American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021. [26] Joe Biden has indicated that he would be open to this piecemeal approach. [27]