81R1407 JE-D
By: Leibowitz H.B. No. 416
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that a recipient of money from the Texas
Enterprise Fund participate in a federal work eligibility
verification program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 481.078, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (f-1), (g-1), and (k) to read as follows:
(f-1) The governor may not enter into a grant agreement with
an entity unless the entity provides documentation to the office
certifying the entity's participation in the federal E-Verify
program or any successor program to verify the work eligibility
status of all its new employees in this state.
(g-1) The grant agreement must include a provision
requiring that the grant recipient:
(1) use the federal E-Verify program or any successor
program to verify the work eligibility status of all its new
employees in this state; and
(2) submit to the office an annual report containing
the results of employment eligibility verifications under
Subdivision (1) that were conducted during the previous calendar
year.
(k) In this section, "federal E-Verify program" means the
electronic verification of work authorization program of Section
403(a) of the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996 (Pub. L. No. 104-208, reprinted in note,
8 U.S.C. Section 1324a), operated by the United States Department
of Homeland Security and known as the Basic Pilot Program or
E-Verify.
SECTION 2. Section 481.078(g-1), Government Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a grant agreement entered into on or
after the effective date of this Act. A grant agreement entered
into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect on the date the agreement was entered into, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.