# 116-hr-7721: FLEX Act

116-hr-7721, FLEX Act, is a 116th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR); status Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 116-hr-7721
- Congress: 116
- Title: FLEX Act
- Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Introduced: 2020-07-22
- Sponsor: Rep. Crawford, Eric A. "Rick" [R-AR-1] (R-AR)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Taxation
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Farm Labor Expansion Act of 2020 or the FLEX Act This bill allows farmers a new tax credit for 40% of the first-year wages paid to eligible replacement workers. The bill defines an eligible replacement worker as any individual who began a period of unemployment after March 27, 2020, and was receiving unemployment compensation during such period, and performs for the employer substantially the same job functions as temporary agricultural workers. The bill limits the amount of wages taken into account for any employee for purposes of the credit to $25,000 for all taxable years and terminates the credit two years after the enactment of this bill.

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- 116-hr-8859: REPAIR Act
- 116-hr-8801: Air America Act of 2020
- 116-hr-8757: BRICKS Act of 2020
- 116-hr-8741: To provide that funds made available under chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, for Federal and State land acquisitions be used for the acquisition of…
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## Sources
- [116-hr-7721 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7721)

## Related
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- [116-hr-8801: Air America Act of 2020](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8801)
- [116-hr-8757: BRICKS Act of 2020](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8757)
- [116-hr-8741: To provide that funds made available under chapter 2003 of title 54, United Sta…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8741)
- [116-hr-8717: FAIR Meat Packing Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8717)
- [116-hr-8702: Holding Providers Harmless From Medicare Cuts During COVID–19 Act of 2020](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-8702)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/116-hr-7721 (as of 2025-11-18).