3.0.0 1384 2023-01-11T13:22:37Z 2023-01-11T13:22:37Z Senate S S 2011-07-19 112 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-07-19T18:43:48Z 2011-07-19 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2011-07-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000286 Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] SAXBY CHAMBLISS R GA N Immigration Administrative remedies Foreign labor Immigration status and procedures Lawyers and legal services Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor Visas and passports Wages and earnings Immigration 00 2011-07-19 Introduced in Senate 2011-09-29T18:20:28Z Helping Agriculture Receive Verifiable Employees Securely and Temporarily Act of 2011 or the HARVEST Act of 2011 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to redefine "H-2A worker" to include a nonimmigrant who: (1) is seeking to perform agricultural labor in the United States in a job for which U.S. workers are not available and willing to perform such service or labor, and (2) commutes each day across the U.S. border and returns to his or her foreign residence and place of abode at the end of each business day.

Sets forth employer and employee association petition and attestation requirements.

Requires H-2A employers to participate in the the E-Verify program.

Requires: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct investigations and random audits of employer work sites; and (2) the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide each H-2A worker with a single machine-readable, counterfeit-resistant document that authorizes the alien's U.S. entry, serves as an employment eligibility document, and has at least one biometric identifier.

Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) penalties; (2) working conditions, wages, transportation, and housing; (3) admissions and extensions of stay; and (4) worker replacement.

Amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to: (1) limit the conditions under which the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) may provide legal assistance for any alien or provide financial assistance to any person or entity that provides legal assistance for any alien, (2) require a good faith mediation attempt prior to bringing a civil action for damages on behalf of an H-2A worker, (3) require an H-2A employer to post LSC contact information in the dwelling and at the work site of each nonimmigrant employee in a language in which all employees can understand, and (4) require that the LSC pay a prevailing defendant's costs.

Authorizes appropriations to adjudicate H-2A petitions.

]]> HARVEST Act of 2011 Display Title HARVEST Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the temporary employment of foreign agricultural workers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced HARVEST Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced Helping Agriculture Receive Verifiable Employees Securely and Temporarily Act of 2011 Introduced in Senate 2011-07-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s1384is/xml/BILLS-112s1384is.xml 2011-07-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.