116th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to apply the rule entitled “Allowing Certain H–4 Dependent Spouses to Apply for Employment Authorization”, and for other purposes.
May 28, 2019
Ms. Eshoo (for herself, Ms. Lofgren, and Mr. Khanna) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to continue to apply the rule entitled “Allowing Certain H–4 Dependent Spouses to Apply for Employment Authorization”, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “H–4 Employment Protection Act of 2019”.
SEC. 2. Employment authorization for certain spouses of H–1B nonimmigrants.
The Secretary of Homeland Security may not amend or repeal the rule entitled “Allowing Certain H–4 Dependent Spouses to Apply for Employment Authorization” (8 C.F.R. 214, 275), and shall continue to apply such rule as in effect on May 26, 2015.