[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4609 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4609

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the provisions 
governing employment of nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) 
  of that Act to prevent the transfer of knowledge from United States 
 workers for the purpose of facilitating their jobs being moved abroad.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2016

  Mr. Kilmer (for himself and Mr. Collins of Georgia) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the provisions 
governing employment of nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) 
  of that Act to prevent the transfer of knowledge from United States 
 workers for the purpose of facilitating their jobs being moved abroad.

    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 ``Keeping American Jobs Act''.

SEC. 2. PREVENTING DISPLACEMENT OF UNITED STATES WORKERS.

    Section 212(n)(1)(E)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1182(n)(1)((E)(ii)) is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence the following: ``An application is described in this clause if 
the Secretary of Labor determines that it was filed by an employer for 
the primary purpose of using one or more United States workers to train 
the H-1B nonimmigrants workers sought in the job duties and 
responsibilities of the United States workers in order to lay off the 
United States workers and move their job or jobs abroad.''.
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