Employment Eligibility Verification and Anti-Identity Theft Act
Latest action · May 9, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 4, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Employment Eligibility Verification and Anti-Identity Theft Act - Directs the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration to notify a person or entity each time that the combination of name and Social Security account number it has submitted for an individual does not match Social Security Administration records.
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (HS) to notify a person or entity each time that: (1) an immigration status or employment authorization document presented or referenced by an individual during the employment eligibility verification process was assigned to another person; or (2) there is no agency record that the document was assigned to any person.
Directs the HS Secretary to establish a system, meeting specified requirements, for verifying an individual's identity and employment eligibility. Requires any person or entity that has received a discrepancy notice under this Act to verify the individual's employment authorization and identity through such system.
Places the burden of resolving errors in the verification mechanism on the individual whose employment eligibility and identity have not been verified. Requires the individual to terminate any employment in the United States if a final nonverification is received.
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security to provide the last known name, address, and location of a nonverified individual to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Provides for sanctions against employers who continue to employ an individual after receiving a final nonverification.
Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to require any person or entity that receives written notice about more than 20 individuals in one calendar year to: (1) participate in a basic pilot project for employment eligibility confirmation; and (2) comply with specified terms and conditions.
Provides for: (1) a remedy under the Federal Tort Claims Act for job dismissals occasioned by verification mechanism errors; and (2) protection from civil and criminal liability for persons or entities that take action in good faith on the basis of verification mechanism information.
Cosponsors 36
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 22, 2007 to Jun 5, 2008.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-AZ | Trent Franks | Jan 22, 2007 | |
| D-GA | Jim Marshall | Sep 10, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Jo Ann Davis | Sep 10, 2007 | |
| R-TX | John Abney Culberson | Sep 10, 2007 | |
| R-VA | Virgil H. Goode Jr. | Sep 10, 2007 | |
| R-GA | Jack Kingston | Sep 17, 2007 | |
| R-FL | Jeff Miller | Sep 17, 2007 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Sep 17, 2007 | |
| R-CA | Dana Rohrabacher | Sep 24, 2007 | |
| D-NC | Mike McIntyre | Sep 24, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Michael T. McCaul | Sep 25, 2007 | |
| R-CA | John Campbell | Sep 27, 2007 | |
| R-TN | Zach Wamp | Sep 27, 2007 | |
| R-CA | David Dreier | Oct 1, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Oct 1, 2007 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 4, 2007 |
| Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee | Referred Feb 2, 2007 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 4, 2007 |
| Social Security Subcommittee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 4, 2007 |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred May 9, 2007 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 9, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Jan 24, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
- Jan 5, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E3-4)
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 4, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extensions | Debate and remarks E3 | Elton Gallegly R-CA | Jan 5, 2007 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-18 | PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRONIC EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION AND WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM169 pages | Judiciary Committee | Apr 26, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require an employer to take action after receiving official notice that an individual's Social Security account number does not match the individual's name, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Employment Eligibility Verification and Anti-Identity Theft Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Alien labor
- Civil actions and liability
- Claims
- Compensation (Law)
- Data banks
- Dismissal of employees
- Employee selection
- Employers' liability
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fraud
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Identification devices
- Identity theft
- Illegal aliens
- Immigration
- Injunctions
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Public records
- Recruiting of employees
- Social security numbers
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
