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Fair Wages for Farmworkers Act
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.
Summary
This bill changes how the minimum wage for H-2A temporary farmworkers is calculated by requiring the Department of Labor to use state occupational employment and wage statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics instead of other methods. The bill also streamlines the visa application process by allowing the Department of Homeland Security to begin processing H-2A worker petitions concurrently while the Department of Labor reviews the required labor certification application, rather than requiring sequential processing.
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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Monica De La Cruz’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- SELF EMPLOYED $88,998
- NULL $50,988
- RIO FRESH INC $14,200
- ELLIOTT INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT $13,200
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $13,200
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Monica De La Cruz → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Dec 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
- Dec 18, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
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 petition for the admission of an alien as an H-2A worker while the Secretary of Labor processes the application for a certification described in paragraph (1).”. <all>
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