H.R. 10460, Immigration System Overhaul. Quorum's AI analysis reads it as a net cost — and names who bears it.
H.R. 10460 · Net cost
What it does
This bill replaces family-based immigration with a skills-based points system, eliminates the Diversity Visa Program, and creates a new federal board (SMART Board) to set employment-based immigration levels based on labor market needs. Applicants earn points for age, education, English proficiency, job salary, and other factors; those with the highest points get visas. Family immigration is narrowed to spouses and minor children of citizens only.
The analysis names high-skilled employers in technology, healthcare, and professional services — and 2 more groups — among the beneficiaries.
The cost
The SMART Board operates with closed meetings exempt from the Federal Advisory Committee Act and Government in the Sunshine Act, limiting public transparency in decisions that affect millions of immigration applicants.
The analysis put a high warning level on this bill. Transparency scores 55%, and the analysis found no provisions unrelated to the bill's subject.
Who is behind it
Filed by David Schweikert.
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