Haiti gets temporary protected status until 2029.
H.R. 1689 — To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status. · Filed by Laura Gillen (D-NY) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 27, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haiti. Haitian people already in the U.S. can stay and work legally. They cannot be deported. The protection lasts until three months after January 20, 2029.
Who it affects
Haitian nationals in the U.S. can work and stay without deportation. They may get access to some federal help.
One thing to notice
The protection ends three months after January 20, 2029. This date is tied to when a presidential term ends.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 7 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Feb 27, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 27, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
- Apr 16, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 224 - 204 (Roll no. 120).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
14 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 14 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $4,420,563 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 30 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 94% of bills with any report.
Laura Gillen, who sponsored the bill, received $976,249 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Friends Committee on National Legislation — $1,000,000 in 1 report
- American Health Care Association — $840,000 in 1 report
- AFL-CIO — $760,000 in 1 report
- Greater New York Hospital Association — $580,000 in 1 report
- American Federation of Teachers — $410,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Temporary Protected Status — A legal status that lets people from certain countries stay and work in the U.S. safely.
- Secretary of Homeland Security — The government official who runs the department that handles immigration and border security.
- deported — Forced to leave the country and return to your home country.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,009 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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