[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2258 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2258

To revise certain requirements for H-2B employers for fiscal year 2004, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 30, 2004

   Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Chambliss, Mr. Allen, Mr. Gregg, Ms. 
  Collins, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Thomas) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To revise certain requirements for H-2B employers for fiscal year 2004, 
                        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 ``Summer Operations and Services (SOS) 
Relief and Reform Act''.

SEC. 2. NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS ON H-2B WORKERS.

    Section 214(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(9) Any alien who has already been counted, within the 2 years 
prior to the approval of a petition for a temporary worker described in 
section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B), toward the numerical limitations of 
paragraph (1)(B) shall not again be counted toward those 
limitations.''.

SEC. 3. DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.

    The Secretary of Homeland Security may delegate to the Secretary of 
Labor, if the Secretary of Labor agrees, any authority to investigate 
fraud or misrepresentation on the part of an alien or an employer in 
connection with a visa described in section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)).

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATES.

    This Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect as if 
enacted on October 1, 2003, and shall expire on October 1, 2004.
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