The Cruz-Sessions bill would have required anyone with a bachelor's or master's degree – 90% of current H-1B visa holders - from working in America in H- 1B status until they had first worked for 10 years outside of the United States, as per the Forbes report.
The bill would set a high minimum salary ($110,000 a year) for H-1B visa holders, foreshadowing the administration's October 2020 Department of Labor (DOL) wage rule, the report says.
The bill also sought to make it easier for U.S. workers to file lawsuits against companies for discrimination, years before the Trump administration filed what the Wall Street Journal called a "dubious" lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly discriminating against U.S. workers.