To address the state‘s critical need for labor provided by agricultural employees, and the economic harm California faces from the uncertainty surrounding the immigration status of the state’s agricultural employee workforce, the Governor, on behalf of this state, may enter into an agreement with the United States Attorney General, or the United States Attorney General’s designee, to establish a program for the United States Attorney General, or the United States Attorney General’s designee, to grant an agricultural employee, living in the state, parole.

(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 636, Sec. 2. (SB 831) Effective January 1, 2024.)