Fair Wages for Farmworkers Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 6847 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6847 To direct the Secretary of labor to use State occupational employment and wage estimates to calculate the adverse effect wage rate required to be paid to H-2A workers, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 18, 2025 Ms. De La Cruz (for herself and Ms. Salazar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Secretary of labor to use State occupational employment and wage estimates to calculate the adverse effect wage rate required to be paid to H-2A 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 ``Fair Wages for Farmworkers Act''. SEC. 2. USE OF OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGE STATISTICS SURVEY TO CALCULATE THE ADVERSE EFFECT WAGE RATE. The Secretary of Labor shall use the State occupational employment and wage estimates in the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to calculate the adverse effect wage rate required to be paid under section 655.1308 of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, to nonimmigrants admitted under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a)). SEC. 3. PROCESSING OF H-2A WORKER PETITIONS. Section 218(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1188(a)) is amended-- (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``Attorney General'' and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(3) The Secretary of Homeland Security is authorized to begin processing a petitio