84R1105 MTB-D
 
  By: Schwertner S.B. No. 374
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  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.