House includes H-2B returning worker exemption in bill

The Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill has an H-2B-related amendment.


The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations passed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill along party lines (29-22). According to the National Association of Landscape Professionals, the bill included an amendment that would exempt returning workers from the H-2B statutorily mandated cap.

NALP and its H-2B Coalition strongly recommended the amendment to Congress as a fix to the ongoing H-2B problem.

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