[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 798 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 798

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the exception for 
          returning workers permanent, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2019

   Mr. Higgins of Louisiana 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 make the exception for 
          returning workers permanent, 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 ``Returning Worker Accountability Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. RETURNING WORKER EXCEPTION MADE PERMANENT.

    Section 214(g)(9)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(g)(9)(A)) is amended by striking ``who has already been 
counted toward the numerical limitation of paragraph (1)(B) during 
fiscal year 2013, 2014, or 2015 shall not again be counted toward such 
limitation during fiscal year 2016'' and inserting ``shall not be 
counted toward the numerical limitation of paragraph (1)(B) for a 
fiscal year if that alien has already been counted toward such 
limitation during any of the 3 fiscal years immediately preceding that 
fiscal year''.
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