SB539 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Steve French
Republican
Co-Sponsors: J.T. Waggoner Ben H. Brooks Trip Pittman Paul Sanford Rusty Glover Arthur Orr Scott Beason
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Illegal aliens, illegal to hire, Industrial Relations Department reguired to verify employment eligibility of all employees through federal E-Verify program and to report to U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, penalties
Description: Existing law does not expressly prohibit a business entity or a public employer in this state from employing an unauthorized alien.
This bill would make it unlawful for a business entity or a public employer located in the State of Alabama to knowingly hire or to recruit for a fee for employment an unauthorized alien.
This bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to use E-Verify to determine the employment eligibility of every employee in this state working for a business entity or a public employer.
This bill would require the department to inform the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency upon discovering a business entity or public employer has hired an unauthorized alien.
This bill would provide for suspension or revocation of a business entity's business license for second and subsequent violations.
Subjects: Employment

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Economic Expansion and Trade