House moves to repeal DOL's H-2A farmworker wage rule
In committeeH.J.Res. 154Latest action
Sponsor: Zoe Lofgren · Representative · CA
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Official title: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to the Adverse Effect Wage Rate.
119th Congress
Topics: Jobs & the economy
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Congress is voting to cancel a 2025 Labor Department rule that set minimum pay rates for temporary foreign farmworkers on H-2A visas.
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What does this do?
This resolution would cancel a Department of Labor rule from October 2025 that set a minimum hourly wage for H-2A temporary foreign farmworkers in non-ranch jobs like crop harvesting. That minimum wage, called the Adverse Effect Wage Rate, was designed to keep H-2A hiring from lowering pay for American farmworkers. If the resolution passes, the rule would be erased and treated as if it never took effect.
Who does it affect?
This primarily affects agricultural employers who hire H-2A temporary workers, the foreign workers themselves, and American farmworkers in similar jobs whose wages were protected by the canceled rule.
Why does it matter?
Without the rule, there would be no longer a federally set method for calculating the minimum wage H-2A employers must pay. American farmworkers doing similar work would lose the wage floor that was meant to protect their pay from being undercut.
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Where does it stand?
- IntroducedMar 26, 2026
- House committeeYou are here · Mar 26, 2026
- House vote
- Senate
- The president's desk
Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the president.
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.