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Employee Verification Amendment Act of 2009

Introduced: January 23, 2009 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 7 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 23, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Mar 16, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Jan 23, 2009
Referred to House Ways and Means
Jan 23, 2009
Referred to House Education and Labor
Jan 23, 2009
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, 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.
Jan 23, 2009
Referred to House Judiciary
Jan 23, 2009
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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

Directs the Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security to enter into a fiscal year agreement which shall: (1) provide funds to the Commissioner for such programs' full costs in quarterly advances; and (2) require an annual accounting and reconciliation of costs incurred and funds provided. Provides for funding continuation in the absence of an agreement.

Requires that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct studies regarding: (1) erroneous tentative nonconfirmations under the E-Verify program; and (2) such program's effects on small entities.


What's happening now March 23, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 2679 Related bill To extend certain immigration programs, and for other purposes.
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Peters, Gary C.
Michigan · Feb 3, 2009
 R
Calvert, Ken
California · Jan 23, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 662: Employee Verification Amendment Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-HR-662/
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