VERIFI Act of 2012

Validating Entitlement Recipients through Indicated Federal Immigration Status Act of 2012 or the VERIFI Act of 2012 - Prohibits a person from receiving a federal public benefit unless such person is in "satisfactory immigration status" in accordance with the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6000 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6000

  To require verification of the immigration status of recipients of 
           Federal benefit programs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2012

 Mr. Akin (for himself, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, 
Mr. Kingston, Mr. King of Iowa, Mr. Schweikert, Mr. Franks of Arizona, 
Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Jones, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Huelskamp, and Mr. Harper) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                    Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require verification of the immigration status of recipients of 
           Federal benefit programs, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Validating Entitlement Recipients 
through Indicated Federal Immigration Status Act of 2012'' or as the 
``VERIFI Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    No person may receive a Federal public benefit (as such term is 
defined in section 401(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611(c)) unless that 
person's immigration status is in ``satisfactory immigration status'' 
as defined and in accordance with the Systematic Alien Verification for 
Entitlements (SAVE) program established by section 1137 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-7).
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