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Creates a new immigration path for long‑term certified agricultural workers to obtain lawful permanent residency, plus protections for their spouses and children, while reforming the H‑2A temporary farm worker program, strengthening rules and enforcement for foreign labor recruiters, funding USDA rural rental housing preservation, and building a new DHS electronic employment‑authorization verification system. The bill also requires outreach, reporting, record‑privacy protections, employer safeguards, and several new pilot and grant programs to implement and support the changes.
The law combines permanent‑residence eligibility and temporary‑worker reform with housing and worker‑protection measures: applicants must pay a $1,000 penalty fee and receive certain work‑authorization and removal protections while applications are pending; H‑2A receives modernization (electronic filing, public job registry, portable H‑2A pilot); foreign recruiter misconduct is regulated with civil remedies and fines; and DHS must run a fast, privacy‑protected worker verification system that generally preempts state employment‑verification laws.
Rewrites/replace the current text of Section 218 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1188) with new text.
Adds a new subparagraph (D) to 42 U.S.C. 408(e)(1) to cover aliens who are granted certified agricultural worker status, certified agricultural dependent status, or lawful permanent resident status under title I of the Farm Work Modernization Act of 2025, and modifies the undesignated time-limitation language to account for such aliens.
Adds a new clause (iv) to 42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)(B) directing the Commissioner of Social Security to coordinate, to the extent practicable, with the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to implement an automated system for assigning Social Security account numbers to aliens granted certified agricultural worker or dependent status under title I of the Farm Work Modernization Act of 2025, including information sharing and Privacy Act limitations.
Amends 42 U.S.C. 410(a)(1) by inserting additional language before a semicolon in that provision (text of inserted language not provided in the section).
Amends 26 U.S.C. 3121(b)(1) by inserting additional language before the semicolon in that provision (text of inserted language not provided in the section).
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced May 7, 2025 by Zoe Lofgren · Last progress May 7, 2025