Bill Text: TX HB183 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 183 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to requiring state agencies to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 59)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-13 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB183 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB183-Comm_Sub.html

	84R1105 MTB-D

	By: Dale, et al.	H.B. No. 183



	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.