To amend section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve the process for verifying an individual's eligibility for employment.

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on October 6, 2004. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize both handwritten and electronic signatures on attestation forms required by the employment verification system. Authorizes the retention of paper, microfiche, microfilm, or electronic versions of such forms.

[108th Congress Public Law 390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 108-390
108th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve 
       the process for verifying an individual's eligibility for 
           employment. <<NOTE: Oct. 30, 2004 -  [H.R. 4306]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. IMPROVEMENTS TO EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Section 274A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting before ``A person or 
        entity has complied'' the following: ``Such attestation may be 
        manifested by either a hand-written or an electronic 
        signature.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following: 
        ``Such attestation may be manifested by either a hand-written or 
        an electronic signature.''; and
            (3) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``a paper, microfiche, 
        microfilm, or electronic version of'' after ``must retain''.

    (b) <<NOTE: 8 USC 1324a note.>> Effective Date.--The amendments made 
by subsection (a) shall take effect on the earlier of--
            (1) the date on which final regulations implementing such 
        amendments take effect; or
            (2) 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

    Approved October 30, 2004.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4306:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 108-731 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 150 (2004):
            Oct. 6, considered and passed House.
            Oct. 11, considered and passed Senate.

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