By: Schwertner S.B. No. 374
(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2015; February 2, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
May 5, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 2; May 5, 2015, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to requiring state agencies to participate in the federal
electronic verification of employment authorization program, or
E-verify.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 6, Government Code, is amended
by adding Chapter 673 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 673. VERIFICATION OF EMPLOYEE INFORMATION
Sec. 673.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "E-verify program" means the electronic
verification of employment authorization program 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, or a
successor employment authorization program designated by the
United States Department of Homeland Security or other federal
agency authorized to verify the employment authorization status of
newly hired employees under the federal Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.).
(2) "State agency" has the meaning assigned by Section
659.101.
Sec. 673.002. VERIFICATION. A state agency shall register
and participate in the E-verify program to verify information of
all new employees.
Sec. 673.003. RULES. The Texas Workforce Commission shall
adopt rules and prescribe forms to implement this chapter.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
* * * * *