A bill aimed at helping Korean Americans reunite with their family in North Korea has been reintroduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.

According to the U.S. Congress website, Representative Grace Meng introduced the Divided Families Reunification Act on Thursday.

A group of 21 bipartisan lawmakers cosponsored the bill, including all four Korean American representatives in the U.S. House.

The bill directs the State Department to consult the South Korean government on how to arrange reunions between Korean Americans and their North Korean families. It also requires the department's special envoy on North Korean human rights to submit a report on ways of realizing a video reunion.

The same legislation was introduced in 2019 and passed the House but not the Senate.

South and North Korea have held over 20 rounds of family reunions since 2000, but Korean Americans who are not South Korean nationals have been excluded from the events.