Bill Text: TX SB374 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring state agencies to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB374 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB374-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 374 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 374 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 7, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 20, Nays 11. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 374 passed the House on | ||
| May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 122, Nays 21, one | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
