Bill Text: TX HB1553 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requiring political subdivisions to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program or E-verify.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-09 - Referred to State Affairs [HB1553 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1553-Introduced.html
| 84R6923 TSR-D | ||
| By: Shaheen | H.B. No. 1553 | |
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| relating to requiring political subdivisions 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 C, Title 5, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Chapter 179 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 179. VERIFICATION OF EMPLOYEE INFORMATION | ||
| Sec. 179.001. 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) "Political subdivision" means a county, | ||
| municipality, school district, junior college district, other | ||
| special district, or other subdivision of state government. | ||
| Sec. 179.002. VERIFICATION. A political subdivision shall | ||
| register and participate in the E-verify program to verify | ||
| information of all new employees. | ||
| Sec. 179.003. STATE FUNDING PROHIBITED FOR FAILURE TO | ||
| PARTICIPATE IN E-VERIFY. Beginning the state fiscal year following | ||
| the effective date of this Act, a political subdivision may not | ||
| receive state funds if the political subdivision fails to register | ||
| and participate in the E-verify program as required by Section | ||
| 179.002. A political subdivision denied state funds under this | ||
| section may receive state funds beginning the state fiscal year | ||
| following the year in which the political subdivision registers and | ||
| participates in the E-verify program as required by Section | ||
| 179.002. The Governor's Office of Budget, Planning, and Policy | ||
| shall adopt rules to implement this section uniformly among state | ||
| agencies from which state funds are distributed to a political | ||
| subdivision. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
