HR 2028 · 111th Congress 2009โ€“2011, ended

New Employee Verification Act of 2009

Latest action · May 26, 2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedApr 22, 2009
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

New Employee Verification Act of 2009 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to extend the employment eligibility confirmation pilot programs (which include the E-Verify basic pilot program).

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to require employers to verify employee identification and employment eligibility under the Electronic Employment Verification System (EEVS) or the Secure Employment Eligibility Verification System (SEEVS) (as established by this Act).

Permits employers subject to employee verification requirements to do so under EEVS or SEEVS.

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) voluntary and expedited participation; (2) employer penalties for failure to participate in EEVS or SEEVS; (3) employer and employee information and document requirements; (4) employer liability protection; (5) attestation; and (6) consequences of EEVS determinations.

States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to require a national identification card.

Repeals the employment eligibility pilot programs under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivor's and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Commissioner of Social Security to establish EEVS utilizing information in the National Directory of New Hires.

States that EEVS shall have the capacity to determine whether: (1) employer-submitted information is consistent with information maintained by the Commissioner with respect to U.S. citizens and nationals and by the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to aliens; and (2) the individual is a citizen or national or is not an unauthorized alien.

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) submission for confirmation of an individual's identification and employment eligibility and related EEVs determinations; (2) administrative and judicial review of employment disapproval; (3) EEVS implementation; and (4) data use by EEVS.

Directs the Commissioner to establish SEEVS to provide, through government certified private entities, for verification of identity and employment eligibility respecting new employees

Permits an employer to opt out of SEEVS after one year's participation.

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) certification of entities; (2) database management, including limitations on accessibility and the use and storage of biometric data; (3) employer responsibilities; (4) employee protections; and (5) information security and confidentiality, including penalties for violations.

Directs the Commissioner to establish the Employment Verification Advisory Council, which shall terminate five years after enactment of this Act.

Amends INA to: (1) apply certain antidiscrimination provisions to EEVS and SEEVS; (2) increase civil money penalties for unfair employment practice violations; (3) increase civil money penalties for certain hiring, recruiting, and referral violations (reduces certain penalties for small employers, exempts certain good faith, first-time violations, and provides a safe harbor for certain contractors); and (4) increase criminal penalties for pattern or practice violations.

Amends SSA to: (1) provide for disclosure to the Secretary of Homeland Security of certain National Directory of New Hires information about employees with the greatest number or percentage of mismatched social security information; (2) deny credit toward earnings benefits from unauthorized work; (3) revise totalization agreement provisions; and (4) prohibit survivor's lump sum death payments to individuals who have been removed from the United States under INA.

Cosponsors 9

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 22, 2009 to Jun 23, 2009; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-KSDennis MooreOriginalApr 22, 2009
D-AZGabrielle GiffordsOriginalApr 22, 2009
D-AZHarry E. MitchellOriginalApr 22, 2009
R-TXKevin BradyOriginalApr 22, 2009
R-WIPaul D. RyanOriginalApr 22, 2009
R-KYBrett GuthrieMay 6, 2009
R-PATodd Russell PlattsJun 2, 2009
R-MNErik PaulsenJun 10, 2009
R-KYGeoff DavisJun 23, 2009

Committees 4

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseJudiciary Committee
Referred Apr 22, 2009
Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee
Referred May 26, 2009
HouseEducation and Workforce Committee
Referred Apr 22, 2009
Workforce Protections Subcommittee
Referred May 21, 2009
HouseRules Committee
Referred Apr 22, 2009
HouseWays and Means Committee
Referred Apr 22, 2009

Actions 9

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 26, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
  2. May 21, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
  3. Apr 22, 2009Introduced in House
  4. Apr 22, 2009Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4691)
  5. Apr 22, 2009Referred to House Judiciary
  6. Apr 22, 2009Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Rules, and Ways and Means, 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.
  7. Apr 22, 2009Referred to House Education and Labor
  8. Apr 22, 2009Referred to House Rules
  9. Apr 22, 2009Referred to House Ways and Means

In the Congressional Record 2

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.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H3815Gabrielle Giffords D-AZMay 25, 2010
HouseDebate and remarks H4691Sam Johnson R-TXApr 23, 2009

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To amend the Social Security Act to prevent unauthorized earnings from being credited toward benefits under title II of such Act and to make improvements in provisions governing totalization agreements, to amend the Social Security Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent unauthorized employment, and to improve coordination of the provisions of such Acts, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
New Employee Verification Act of 2009

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 22, 2009Introduced in House

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