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Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act

USA117th CongressS-495| Senate 
| Updated: 3/1/2021
John Thune

John Thune

Republican Senator

South Dakota

Cosponsors (1)
Mike Rounds (Republican)

Judiciary Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act This bill authorizes additional H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers in states with relatively low unemployment. Currently, such visas are capped nationally at 66,000 a year. For positions in states that had a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.5% or lower in at least three of the six most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly reports issued in the previous fiscal half year, a certain number of H-2B visas may be issued that do not count against the 66,000 per year cap. For such exempted H-2B visas, a state may receive each year no more than 125% of the number of visas for aliens working in the state in the last completed fiscal year or 2,500, whichever is less.
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Bill from Previous Congress

S 116-135
Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act
Mar 1, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Mar 1, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S956)
  • Bill from Previous Congress

    S 116-135
    Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act


  • March 1, 2021
    Introduced in Senate


  • March 1, 2021
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S956)

Immigration

Foreign laborTemporary and part-time employmentUnemploymentVisas and passports

Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act

USA117th CongressS-495| Senate 
| Updated: 3/1/2021
Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act This bill authorizes additional H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers in states with relatively low unemployment. Currently, such visas are capped nationally at 66,000 a year. For positions in states that had a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.5% or lower in at least three of the six most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly reports issued in the previous fiscal half year, a certain number of H-2B visas may be issued that do not count against the 66,000 per year cap. For such exempted H-2B visas, a state may receive each year no more than 125% of the number of visas for aliens working in the state in the last completed fiscal year or 2,500, whichever is less.
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Timeline

Bill from Previous Congress

S 116-135
Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act
Mar 1, 2021
Introduced in Senate
Mar 1, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S956)
  • Bill from Previous Congress

    S 116-135
    Prioritizing Help to Businesses Act


  • March 1, 2021
    Introduced in Senate


  • March 1, 2021
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S956)
John Thune

John Thune

Republican Senator

South Dakota

Cosponsors (1)
Mike Rounds (Republican)

Judiciary Committee

Immigration

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Foreign laborTemporary and part-time employmentUnemploymentVisas and passports