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HR 3227 · in committee · significant

Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • Creates a new visa status for foreign agricultural workers with a path to permanent residency.
  • Affects farm employers, foreign farmworkers, and agricultural labor markets across the U.S.
  • Requires mandatory employment verification system for agricultural employers through 2030.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would creating a permanent residency pathway for agricultural workers affect wage competition and working conditions for domestic farm laborers?

  2. 02

    What enforcement mechanisms would make the mandatory employment verification system effective, and who bears the compliance costs?

  3. 03

    Which agricultural regions or crop types would benefit most from increased access to foreign workers under this visa program?

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Sponsor · D-CA-18

Zoe Lofgren

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Introduced 2025-05-07

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-05-07 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  2. 2025-05-07 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-05-07 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-05-07 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  5. 2025-05-07 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  6. 2025-05-07 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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