Expanding Health Care Providers for Veterans Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Exempts H-1B workers employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or VA-recognized State homes from the usual visa cap and from certain later nonimmigrant-worker entry restrictions.
Who Benefits and How
VA facilities, recognized State homes, and covered H-1B workers could gain easier access to needed staffing and immigration status.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The change would reserve more H-1B access for VA-related employers and reduce the reach of a later proclamation restricting nonimmigrant workers.
Key Provisions
- Adds VA and VA-recognized State-home employment to the H-1B cap-exempt category.
- Makes the change effective six months after enactment.
- Declares certain later presidential restrictions on H-1B entry inapplicable to the new cap-exempt category.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Exempts H-1B workers employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or VA-recognized State homes from the usual visa cap and from certain later nonimmigrant-worker entry restrictions.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Veterans Affairs, Labor
Primary Purpose
Exempts H-1B workers employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs or VA-recognized State homes from the usual visa cap and from certain later nonimmigrant-worker entry restrictions.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Veterans Affairs facilities and recognized State homes seeking workers
- H-1B workers employed by or offered jobs at those facilities
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Competing employers and workers outside the targeted cap exemption
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Tlaib (for herself, Ms. Clarke of New York, Ms. …
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
H-1B workers employed by or offered jobs at covered veterans-care facilities
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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