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S 2972 115th Congress Senate Immigration Foreign labor Temporary and part-time employment Unemployment Visas and passports

Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act

Introduced: May 24, 2018 Introduced by: Thune, John Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act

This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide states which have low unemployment rates of 3.5% or lower with up to 1,500 additional H-2B visas (temporary nonagricultural workers) per fiscal year. Such visas shall be exempt from the overall H-2B annual visa limit of 66,000.

The bill sets forth a formula to distribute such visas throughout the fiscal year.

What's happening now May 24, 2018

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2972: Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2972/
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"S. 2972: Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2972/.
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S. 2972, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2972/.
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