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HR 2595 105th Congress House

Farmers' Temporary Employment Assistance Act

Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to create a new nonimmigrant category for temporary agricultural workers admitted pursuant to a labor condition attestation.

Introduced: October 1, 1997 See on congress.gov
Immigration Administrative procedureAdministrative remediesAdmission of nonimmigrantsAgricultural labor
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It never became law before the 105th Congress (1997–1998) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Oct 15, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Oct 9, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Oct 8, 1997
Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Oct 8, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Oct 7, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops.
Oct 1, 1997
Referred to House Commerce
Oct 1, 1997
Referred to House Ways and Means
Oct 1, 1997
Referred to House Agriculture
Oct 1, 1997
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Ways and Means, and Commerce, 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.
Oct 1, 1997
Referred to House Judiciary
Oct 1, 1997
Introduced in House
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 Latest action October 15, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Farmers' Temporary Employment Assistance Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish: (1) an alternative temporary agricultural worker process based upon a labor condition attestation filed by an employer and accepted by the appropriate State agency; and (2) a nonimmigrant visa category for such aliens.

Sets forth program provisions.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 8
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 1 Republican 3
R
Calvert, Ken
California · Nov 12, 1997
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Oct 1, 1997
 R
Graham, Lindsey
South Carolina · Oct 1, 1997
 R
Lucas, Frank D.
Oklahoma · Oct 1, 1997
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2595: Farmers' Temporary Employment Assistance Act. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2595/
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