BILL NUMBER: AJR 12	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 29, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Eduardo Garcia, Brown, and Roger
Hernández
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chiu, Cristina Garcia, Gonzalez,
 and Rendon   Rendon,   Alejo, 
 Atkins,   Bloom,   Bonilla,   Bonta,
  Calderon,   Campos,   Chau,  
Chu,   Cooley,   Cooper,   Daly, 
 Dodd,   Eggman,   Frazier,   Gatto,
  Gipson,   Gomez,   Gordon,  
Gray,   Holden,   Irwin,   Jones-Sawyer,
  Levine,   Lopez,   McCarty,  
Medina,   Mullin,   Nazarian,   Quirk,
  Ridley-Thomas,   Rodriguez,   Salas,
  Santiago,   Mark Stone,   Thurmond,
  Ting,   Weber,   Williams,  
and Wood  )

                        MARCH 24, 2015

   Relative to the H-1B Visa program.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 12, as amended, Eduardo Garcia. H-1B Visa program:
investigation of misuse.
   This measure would urge the United States Department of Labor and
the Congress of the United States to investigate alleged misuse of
the H1-B Visa program.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, The H-1B Visa program allows businesses to temporarily
hire highly skilled foreign workers with specialized knowledge where
a qualified United States worker cannot be found; and
   WHEREAS, The H-1B Visa program was never intended to be used as a
catalyst for laying off United States' workers and replacing them
with H-1B workers; and
   WHEREAS, The granting of H-1B Visas should never result in the
creation of a virtual pipeline for outsourcing United States
workforce jobs; and
   WHEREAS, California's average unemployment rate in January 2015
was 6.9 percent with Imperial County's unemployment rate being 20.6
percent; and
   WHEREAS, Some companies are misusing the federal H-1B Visa
program, including the documented misuse by one California public
utility to replace 400 California workers; and
   WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 477 (Chapter 711 of the Statutes of 2014)
seeks to end the exploitation of foreign, temporary, nonimmigrant
workers brought to California under various federal work visa
programs; and
   WHEREAS, Displaced American workers are being exploited through
the misapplication of the H-1B Visa program; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature respectfully urges the
United States Department of Labor and the Congress of the United
States to investigate this alleged misuse of the H1-B Visa program;
and be it further
   Resolved, That any company that has engaged in this improper
practice is urged to immediately cease the practice of replacing
California employees with foreign workers under this, or any other,
program; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority
Leader of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the
Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, and each Senator and
Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.