3.0.0 891 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z Senate S S 2013-05-08 113 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-05-08T16:06:34Z American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013 113 1596 HR 2013-04-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. Related bill CRS Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act 113 744 S 2013-06-27 Senate ordered measure printed as passed. Related bill CRS 2013-05-08 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2013-05-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR N Immigration Employee hiring Fires Foreign labor Forests, forestry, trees State and local government operations Temporary and part-time employment Visas and passports Immigration 00 2013-05-08 Introduced in Senate 2013-07-31T21:32:49Z American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, as a component of the H-2B (temporary nonagricultural workers) labor certification process for employment in forestry, 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 2013 Display Title American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013 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 IS Short Titles as Introduced American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-05-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s891is/xml/BILLS-113s891is.xml 2013-05-08 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.