HR7899-119

In Committee

Respect for Essential Workers Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 12, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Respect for Essential Workers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators. The main policy domain is Labor, Immigration, Healthcare.

Who Benefits and How

workers, employers, and labor regulators may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, workers, employers, and labor regulators may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HF69FFA8848F942FCA6EFC75EA09E72CA: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Respect for Essential Workers Act.
  • Section H8C043CAF5C34413B8E806F1F6C99C5CF: 2. Temporary Protected Status for essential workers Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a covered alien may not be removed from the United States on...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Respect for Essential Workers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Key Policy Areas

Labor, Immigration, Healthcare

Primary Purpose

This bill, Respect for Essential Workers Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting workers, employers, and labor regulators.

Policy Domains

Labor Immigration Healthcare

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
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workers, employers, and labor regulators:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • workers, employers, and labor regulators
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies:
workers, employers, and labor regulators:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 12, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Mar 12, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 12, 2026

Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Labor Immigration Healthcare
Actor Mappings
"the_administrator"
→ The Administrator identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_labor"
→ Secretary of Labor

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"covered alien" §H8C043CAF5C34413B8E806F1F6C99C5CF

an alien who— on the date of enactment of this Act, is present in the United States pursuant to a grant of temporary protected status under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a)

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