Religious Workforce Protection Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Religious Workforce Protection Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers. The main policy domain is Immigration, Labor, Environment.
Who Benefits and How
immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers 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, immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Religious Workforce Protection Act.
- Section id4d2fa6c27a97425782ed0c0b775b8628: 2. Extension of nonimmigrant status for religious workers caught in long backlogs for lawful permanent residence Section 214(a)(2) of the Immigration and...
- Section id006d899256dc441496071dce4feab724: 3. Limited job flexibility for certain religious workers with long-delayed applications for lawful permanent residence Section 204(j) of the Immigration and...
- Section ide9ed036bd56e4d7b8e0db53b4cd5a69c: 4. Exemption to 1-year foreign residence requirement for certain nonimmigrant religious workers An alien described in section 214(a)(2)(C) of the Immigration...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Religious Workforce Protection Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Labor, Environment
Primary Purpose
This bill, Religious Workforce Protection Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- immigrants, border agencies, and immigration-service providers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Kaine (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Risch) introduced …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
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?
- "secretary_of_homeland_security"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
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