3.0.0 2167 2019-11-15T21:55:25Z 2019-11-15T21:55:25Z Senate S S 2012-03-07 112 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-03-07T17:53:23Z American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 112 4159 HR 2012-03-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement. Identical bill CRS 2012-03-07 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2012-03-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2012-06-06 False Immigration Employee hiring Foreign labor State and local government operations Visas and passports Immigration 00 2012-03-07 Introduced in Senate 2012-04-16T16:59:30Z American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, as a component of the H-2B (temporary nonagricultural workers) labor certification process, to take specified actions to recruit U.S. workers before petitioning to hire H-2B workers.

Requires a prospective H-2B employer to submit a separate petition for each state in which the employer plans to employ H-2B non-immigrants for a period of at least seven days.

Prohibits the Secretary from granting a temporary labor certification to a prospective H-2B employer until the Director of the state workforce agency has determined that: (1) employer recruitment requirements have been met, and (2) U.S. nationals are not qualified or available to fill such employment opportunities.]]>

American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 Display Title American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2012 Official Title as Introduced A bill to increase the employment of Americans by requiring State workforce agencies to certify that employers are actively recruiting Americans and that Americans are not qualified or available to fill the positions that the employer wants to fill with H-2B nonimmigrants. Introduced in Senate 2012-03-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s2167is/xml/BILLS-112s2167is.xml 2012-03-07 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.