Modernize the H-2A agricultural guestworker program by streamlining admissions, labor certification, filing, worker entry and exit, subsequent employment, housing, and special-procedure rules for agricultural employers and workers.

Bill Huizenga · Michigan · Republican

policy impact 0.70 specificity 0.70 extraction confidence 83%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania ... Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. Huizenga ... introduced the following bill ... A BILL To modernize the process for the admission of H-2A workers, and for other purposes.

Huizenga was listed as an introducer of legislation to modernize the H-2A agricultural worker admission process and related program rules.

H.R. 9535 (IH) - Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026
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Evidence

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GovInfo lists H.R. 9535 as introduced on June 30, 2026, with Bill Huizenga among the cosponsors, and referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The bill’s stated purpose is to modernize admission of H-2A workers; its text proposes changes on labor certifications, housing, staggered worker entry and exit, subsequent employment, special procedures, agency processing roles, and petition timing.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No new action appeared in the Aug. 14-16, 2026 lookback; the strongest current official sign is Huizenga cosponsoring a comprehensive H-2A modernization bill that remains only introduced/referred, so the commitment is not delivered but has serious concrete effort.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 9535 (IH) - Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026
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DHS/USCIS issued a final rule effective October 2, 2025, allowing certain electronically filed H-2A petitions for unnamed beneficiaries to be filed after DOL issues a Notice of Acceptance and before final labor certification, enabling USCIS and DOL concurrent processing while still requiring DOL approval before petition approval.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This final rule partially delivers a filing and processing streamlining component of the H-2A modernization goal, but it does not by itself complete the broader admissions, labor certification, housing, entry/exit, subsequent employment, and special-procedure modernization promised.

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Federal Register: Facilitating Earlier Filing of Certain Electronically Submitted H-2A Petitions
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. same_term A for effort

The broad H-2A modernization promise has not been fully enacted. Huizenga cosponsored H.R. 9535 in the 119th Congress, a serious and directly relevant legislative attempt covering admissions, labor certification, filing, housing, entry/exit, subsequent employment, and special procedures, but the bill remains introduced/referred rather than passed. A 2025 DHS/USCIS final rule did partially streamline earlier electronic filing and concurrent processing for some H-2A petitions, but it covers only part of the promised modernization and appears to be an executive agency action rather than a Huizenga-delivered legislative outcome.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%