2009 House Bill 4355

Require governments and their contractors to verify employee citizenship

Introduced in the House

Feb. 19, 2009

Introduced by Rep. David Agema (R-74)

To require the state and local governments to verify the citizenship status of all new employees with the federal “E-verification” real-time program created to verify the work authorization status of newly hired employees. Governments would also have require that any contractors they engage must do the same with their employees.

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

Dec. 1, 2009

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.