H.R. 6847

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6847 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6847

To direct the Secretary of labor to use State occupational employment 
and wage estimates to calculate the adverse effect wage rate required 
to be paid to H-2A workers, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 18, 2025

Ms. De La Cruz (for herself and Ms. Salazar) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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A BILL

To direct the Secretary of labor to use State occupational employment 
and wage estimates to calculate the adverse effect wage rate required 
to be paid to H-2A workers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Fair Wages for Farmworkers Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGE STATISTICS SURVEY TO 
CALCULATE THE ADVERSE EFFECT WAGE RATE.

The Secretary of Labor shall use the State occupational employment 
and wage estimates in the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics 
Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate the 
adverse effect wage rate required to be paid under section 655.1308 of 
title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, to nonimmigrants admitted under 
section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a)).

SEC. 3. PROCESSING OF H-2A WORKER PETITIONS.

Section 218(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1188(a)) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Attorney General'' and 
inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(3) The Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized to 
begin processing a petition for the admission of an alien as an 
H-2A worker while the Secretary of Labor processes the 
application for a certification described in paragraph (1).''.
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