To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to allow employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of an employee from the time of application for employment.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2064 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2064

 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996 to allow employers to verify the identity and employment 
eligibility of an employee from the time of application for employment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 31, 2011

 Mr. Marchant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility 
 Act of 1996 to allow employers to verify the identity and employment 
eligibility of an employee from the time of application for employment.

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

SECTION 1. EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION SYSTEM.

    Section 404(d)(4)(B) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and 
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 is amended by striking ``prior to 
an offer of employment'' and inserting ``prior to the time of the 
submission of an employment application''.
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