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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 also address wages in a way that could help farm owners, but leave the door open for lower wages for some workers. That’s because it would separate the adverse wage by job ...
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 ...
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
Dec. 13—California farmers frustrated with congressional inaction on farmworker immigration and guest-worker reform have settled on another way to nudge their workforce toward U.S. citizenship.
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]
That is exactly what the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA) allows. The FWMA favors work solutions over monetary bandages, aligns closely with recent recommendations of a Congressional ...