A bill to temporarily increase the availability of temporary nonimmigrant nonagricultural workers for the purposes of restoring American forests, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill would temporarily increase the number of foreign workers allowed to enter the United States for specific forestry and conservation jobs by exempting them from the annual cap on H-2B visas. For a period of five years, workers hired for tasks such as tree planting, nursery care, and forest harvesting would not count toward the yearly limit of 66,000 visas. The legislation is designed to provide the forestry industry with a larger temporary workforce to support forest health and restoration projects across the country.
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