Commercial Fishing and Seafood Business Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 614 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 614

To amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 to provide 
 for the inclusion of certain workers in the exemption from numerical 
          limitations on H-2B workers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2023

 Mr. Wittman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 to provide 
 for the inclusion of certain workers in the exemption from numerical 
          limitations on H-2B workers, 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 ``Commercial Fishing and Seafood 
Business Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN WORKERS IN EXEMPTION FROM NUMERICAL 
              LIMITATIONS ON H-2B WORKERS.

    Section 14006 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 
(Public Law 108-287) is amended to read as follows:
    ``Sec. 14006.  The numerical limitation contained in section 
214(g)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(g)(1)(B)) shall not apply to any nonimmigrant alien issued a visa 
or otherwise provided status under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b) of such 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(b)) who is employed (or has received 
an offer of employment)--
            ``(1) on a commercial fishing vessel or shrimp trawler; or
            ``(2) in the processing of--
                    ``(A) fish or fishery products; or
                    ``(B) baitfish.
Terms used in this section have the meanings given such terms in 
section 123.3 of title 21, Code of Federal Regulations.''.
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