Bill adds $10,000 fee for hiring foreign workers.
S. 5155 — American Hiring Transparency Act · Filed by Rick Scott (R-FL) · Introduced Jul 28, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
Companies must pay at least $10,000 to hire a foreign worker. The fee goes up each year with inflation. Half the money pays for improvements to USAJOBS. The other half goes to the general government budget. Companies cannot get the fee waived or lowered.
Who it affects
Companies that hire foreign workers must pay the fee. U.S. workers may benefit if fewer foreign workers are hired. Foreign workers may be affected if companies pass the cost to them.
One thing to notice
The bill does not say how high the fee will go. It does not say how much it will increase each year.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 28, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jul 28, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- USAJOBS — A government website where people can search for federal job openings.
- inflation — When prices for things go up over time.
- waived — Allowed to skip or not pay something that is normally required.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,936 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-23.
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