HR 1843 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007

Introduced Mar 29, 2007 Originated House Sponsor Bart Stupak D-MI

Latest action · Apr 20, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 29, 2007
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker) from annual numerical limitations.

Cosponsors 158

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2007 to Sep 22, 2008; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-MA	Bill Delahunt	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-KS	Dennis Moore	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-AZ	Jeff Flake	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-SC	Joe Wilson	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-CO	Marilyn N. Musgrave	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-WI	Paul D. Ryan	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz	Original	Mar 29, 2007
R-MD	Wayne T. Gilchrest	Original	Mar 29, 2007
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		May 1, 2007
R-AL	Jo Bonner		May 1, 2007
D-CT	John B. Larson		May 1, 2007
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		May 1, 2007
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 1, 2007
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		May 1, 2007
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette		May 1, 2007
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		May 1, 2007
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 1, 2007
R-VA	Jo Ann Davis		May 23, 2007
R-KS	Todd Tiahrt		May 23, 2007
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jun 14, 2007
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		Jul 18, 2007
D-CO	Diana DeGette		Jul 19, 2007
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jul 24, 2007
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jul 27, 2007
R-NY	John M. McHugh		Jul 30, 2007
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jul 31, 2007
R-IL	Jerry Weller		Jul 31, 2007
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jul 31, 2007
R-OH	Ralph Regula		Jul 31, 2007
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Aug 2, 2007
D-VT	Peter Welch		Aug 2, 2007
R-MI	Dave Camp		Aug 3, 2007
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes		Aug 3, 2007
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Sep 4, 2007
R-WY	Barbara Cubin		Sep 4, 2007
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Sep 4, 2007
R-SC	Henry E. Brown, Jr.		Sep 4, 2007
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Sep 4, 2007
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Sep 4, 2007
R-PA	Joseph R. Pitts		Sep 4, 2007
R-IN	Mark E. Souder		Sep 4, 2007
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Sep 4, 2007
R-MI	Vernon J. Ehlers		Sep 4, 2007
D-PA	Christopher P. Carney		Sep 6, 2007
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Sep 6, 2007
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Sep 6, 2007
R-VA	Thelma D. Drake		Sep 6, 2007
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Sep 7, 2007
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Sep 7, 2007
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Sep 7, 2007
R-CO	Doug Lamborn		Sep 7, 2007
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Sep 7, 2007
R-MI	Peter Hoekstra		Sep 7, 2007
R-MI	Tim Walberg		Sep 7, 2007
R-NY	John R. "Randy" Kuhl Jr.		Sep 10, 2007
D-CO	John T. Salazar		Sep 10, 2007
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Sep 14, 2007
D-VA	James P. Moran		Sep 14, 2007
R-IL	Ray LaHood		Sep 14, 2007
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		Sep 14, 2007
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Sep 17, 2007
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Sep 17, 2007
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Sep 17, 2007
R-VA	Tom Davis		Sep 17, 2007
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Sep 18, 2007
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Sep 19, 2007
R-MN	John Kline		Sep 19, 2007
R-CA	Wally Herger		Sep 19, 2007
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Sep 20, 2007
D-CO	Mark Udall		Sep 20, 2007
R-PA	Charles W. Dent		Sep 27, 2007
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Sep 27, 2007
R-FL	Lincoln Diaz-Balart		Sep 27, 2007
R-DE	Michael N. Castle		Sep 27, 2007
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Sep 27, 2007
R-NC	Virginia Foxx		Sep 27, 2007
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Oct 1, 2007
D-CA	Jim Costa		Oct 1, 2007
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Oct 3, 2007
D-MA	Barney Frank		Oct 4, 2007
D-NH	Paul W. Hodes		Oct 9, 2007
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Oct 10, 2007
D-MN	Keith Ellison		Oct 10, 2007
R-GA	Nathan Deal		Oct 10, 2007
R-LA	Richard H. Baker		Oct 10, 2007
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Oct 10, 2007
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Oct 15, 2007
R-MS	Charles W. "Chip" Pickering		Oct 15, 2007
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Oct 22, 2007
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Oct 22, 2007
D-PA	Joe Sestak		Oct 23, 2007
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Oct 23, 2007
D-NY	Steve Israel		Oct 25, 2007
R-NY	James T. Walsh		Nov 7, 2007
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		Nov 14, 2007
R-VA	Eric Cantor		Dec 4, 2007
R-MI	Mike Rogers		Dec 4, 2007
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi		Dec 4, 2007
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Dec 5, 2007
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Dec 5, 2007
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Dec 5, 2007
R-AZ	John B. Shadegg		Dec 5, 2007
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Dec 5, 2007
R-AZ	Rick Renzi		Dec 5, 2007
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		Dec 5, 2007
R-AZ	Trent Franks		Dec 5, 2007
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter		Dec 6, 2007
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		Dec 6, 2007
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Dec 6, 2007
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Dec 12, 2007
R-WA	Cathy McMorris Rodgers		Dec 12, 2007
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Dec 12, 2007
R-OK	Tom Cole		Dec 12, 2007
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Dec 13, 2007
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Dec 18, 2007
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Dec 19, 2007
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Dec 19, 2007
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Dec 19, 2007
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Dec 19, 2007
D-IL	Melissa L. Bean		Dec 19, 2007
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Dec 19, 2007
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Dec 19, 2007
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Dec 19, 2007
D-NC	Brad Miller		Jan 16, 2008
R-ID	Bill Sali		Jan 17, 2008
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		Jan 17, 2008
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Jan 22, 2008
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Jan 22, 2008
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jan 22, 2008
D-NC	David E. Price		Jan 28, 2008
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jan 28, 2008
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo		Jan 29, 2008
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Feb 7, 2008
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Feb 7, 2008
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Feb 26, 2008
R-FL	Tom Feeney		Feb 26, 2008
D-FL	Ron Klein		Mar 6, 2008
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Mar 13, 2008
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Mar 13, 2008
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Mar 14, 2008
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Mar 14, 2008
R-PR	Luis G. Fortuno		Mar 31, 2008
R-PA	Phil English		Apr 15, 2008
R-MO	Roy Blunt		Apr 15, 2008
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		Apr 24, 2008
R-MO	Kenny C. Hulshof		Apr 30, 2008
R-SC	Bob Inglis		May 5, 2008
R-MN	Michele Bachmann		Jul 22, 2008
R-NJ	Christopher H. Smith		Jul 24, 2008
R-NJ	Jim Saxton		Sep 10, 2008
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Sep 15, 2008
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Sep 15, 2008
D-OK	Dan Boren		Sep 17, 2008
D-AR	Marion Berry		Sep 22, 2008

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Mar 29, 2007
	Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee	Referred Apr 20, 2007

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Apr 20, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Mar 29, 2007Introduced in House
Mar 29, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In the Congressional Record 9

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Discharge petition H8050	—	Sep 11, 2008
House	Discharge petition H6178	—	Jun 26, 2008
House	Discharge petition H5866	—	Jun 23, 2008
House	Discharge petition H2857	—	Apr 29, 2008
House	Discharge petition H2490	—	Apr 18, 2008

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Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Printed hearings 1

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 110-81	H-2B PROGRAM241 pages	Judiciary Committee	Apr 16, 2008

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
RL32044	Immigration: Policy Considerations Related to Guest Worker Programs Archived	Report	Mar 16, 2010

Related bills 5

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 988	Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007	Related bill	Mar 26, 2007
HRES 1025	Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1843) to extend the termination date for the exemption of returning workers from numerical limitations for temporary workers.	Related bill	Apr 1, 2008
HR 5233	Giving Relief to Our Small Businesses Act	Related bill	Feb 25, 2008
HR 5495	Relief for America's Small and Seasonal Businesses Act	Related bill	Mar 17, 2008
HR 5849	Seasonal Workforce Assistance Act	Related bill	Apr 28, 2008

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To extend the termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers.
Short Titles as Introduced: Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 29, 2007Introduced in House

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