[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2087 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2087

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the H-2A worker 
program to include certain additional laborers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2017

  Mr. Duffy 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 expand the H-2A worker 
program to include certain additional laborers, 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 ``Defending the Agricultural 
Industry's Requirements Year-round Act of 2017'' or as the ``DAIRY Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF H-2A WORKER PROGRAM TO INCLUDE CERTAIN ADDITIONAL 
              LABORERS.

    Section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a)) is amended by inserting after 
``abandoning'' the following: ``who is coming temporarily to the United 
States to perform agricultural labor or services as a dairy worker, 
or''.

SEC. 3. SPECIAL RULE FOR PERIOD OF ADMISSION OF H-2A NONIMMIGRANTS 
              EMPLOYED AS SHEEPHERDERS OR DAIRY WORKERS.

    Section 218(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1188(h)) is amended by adding at the end of the following:
            ``(3) In the case of an alien admitted as an H-2A worker 
        for employment as a dairy worker--
                    ``(A) the initial period of admission shall be for 
                a period of 18 months;
                    ``(B) the period of admission may be extended for 
                additional periods of 18 months; and
                    ``(C) no period of absence from the United States 
                may be required as a condition of approval of an 
                extension under subparagraph (B).''.
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