State and Local
The State & Local Initiative focuses on E-Verify, limiting tuition benefits, driver’s licenses, and taxing remittances, with recent progress in Florida, Texas, and West Virginia.
Take ActionSTATE | BILL | Passed | Description |
Alabama | HB 56 | 2011 | Requires all employers, public and private, to use E-Verify. Requires E-Verify use as a condition of being awarded any government contract, grant, or incentive. Sets penalty for noncompliance as a suspension or revocation of a business license or loss of a contract. |
Arizona | HB 2745 HB 2779 | 2008 2007 | Requires all contractors, and subcontractors to use E-Verify, excluding independent contractors, and prohibits government contracts to any businesses not using E-Verify. Requires all employers, public and private, to use E-Verify. Sets penalty for noncompliance as a suspension or revocation of a business license or loss of a contract. |
California | AB 1236 | 2011 | Prohibits municipalities from enacting or maintaining mandatory E-Verify ordinances. |
Colorado | SB 193 HB 1343 | 2008 2006 | Creates alternative “Department Program,” including random compliance checks – multiple exclusions apply. Sets penalty for noncompliance as contract cancellation and possible debarment. Requires all state agencies and contractors to use E-Verify. Prohibits government agencies from entering into contracts with employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens. |
Florida | SB 1718 EO 11-02 | 2023 2011 | Requires all private employers with at least 25 employees to use E-Verify. Failure to use E-Verify for more than three months over a 24-month period will result in a $1000 fine for every month of noncompliance. Requires state agencies, contractors, and subcontractors to use E-Verify. |
Georgia | HB 87 SB 447 SB 529 | 2011 2010 2006 | Requires all private businesses with more than 10 employees to use E-Verify. Failure to comply could result in suspending or denying a business license, occupational tax certificate, or other document required to operate a business in the state. Requires mandatory notification by public contractors and subcontractors of work status authorization of new hires within five days; Establishes annual audits of contractors to ensure compliance. Requires the phased-in use of E-Verify by public employers, contractors, and subcontractors through July 1, 2009. |
Idaho | EO 2009-10 | 2009 | Requires all state agencies to verify work eligibility of new employees; requires public contractors and subcontractors that receive state or federal funds to verify work eligibility status. |
Illinois | SB 1133 HB 1774 HB 1743 | 2009 2007 2007 | Prohibits Illinois or its localities from requiring employers to use E-Verify. Barred Illinois companies from enrolling in E-Verify. A Federal Court invalidated the bar in 2009. Allowed companies to use E-Verify but created “privacy and antidiscrimination protections for workers.” |
Indiana | HB 1019 SB 590 | 2015 2011 | Requires public works contractors to use E-Verify. Requires government agencies and contractors to use E-Verify. The bill also creates a state tax credit incentive for private employers to use E-Verify. |
Kansas | SoS Memo | 2011 | The Office of the Kansas Secretary of State requires all contractors with that office to use E-Verify – the rest of the state declined to follow the practice. |
Louisiana | HB 342 HB 646 | 2011 | Requires all state contractors to participate in E-Verify and sets non-compliance penalties as contract cancellation and ineligibility for 3 years. Requires private employers to either use E-Verify or retain work authorization documents. Adds protections for employers who unknowingly hire illegal aliens while participating in E-Verify. |
Michigan | HB 5365 | 2012 | Requires contractors and subcontractors of the state HHS and DOT to use E-Verify. |
Minnesota | 11-3590 | 2011 | Requires vendors and subcontractors with contracts in excess of $50,000 to use E-Verify. |
Mississippi | SB 2988 | 2008 | Requires all employers, contractors, and subcontractors, to use E-Verify. |
Missouri | HB 1549 | 2008 | Requires public employers, contractors, and subcontractors to use E-Verify. |
Nebraska | LB 403 | 2009 | Requires public employers, contractors, and businesses qualifying for state tax incentives to use E-Verify. |
North Carolina | HB 318 HB 786 HB 36 SB 1523 | 2015 2013 2011 2006 | Requires all state and local government contractors to use E-Verify. All contractors and subcontractors must use E-Verify, excluding employees whose contracts are shorter than nine months. Requires all counties, cities, and private employers with more than 25 employees to use E-Verify. Seasonal workers are excluded. Sets penalties to include civil fines. All state agencies and institutions, including universities, must use E-Verify. |
Oklahoma | HB 1804 | 2007 | Requires public employers, contractors, and subcontractors to use E-Verify. |
Pennsylvania | SB 637 | 2012 | Requires public works contractors and subcontractors to use E-Verify. |
Rhode Island | EO-02 EO-01 | 2011 2008 | Gov. Lincoln Chafee rescinds Gov. Carcieri’s Executive Order. Gov. Carcieri signs an executive order requiring state agencies, grantees, contractors, subcontractors, and vendors to use E-Verify. |
South Carolina | HB 4813 SB 20 HB 4400 | 2012 2011 2008 | Establishes a 24-hour hotline to report E-Verify violations. Requires all employers to use E-Verify. Requires all public employers and contractors to use E-Verify. |
Tennessee | SB 1965 HB 1378 | 2016 2011 | Requires mandatory E-Verify use for all employers with 50 or more employees. Requires all employers with 6 or more employees to use E-Verify or request new employees provide valid state ID. |
Texas | SB 374 EO RP-80 SB 766 | 2015 2014 2021 | Requires state agencies and institutions of higher education to use E-Verify. Requires E-Verify use by state agencies and contractors, at least with respect to those employees assigned to the contract. Expands the mandatory participation in the E-Verify system to all “sexually oriented businesses” operating within Texas. |
Utah | HB 116 SB 251 SB 81 | 2011 2010 2008 | Allows private employers to employ unauthorized aliens who hold a UT Guest Worker Permit (contingent on a federal waiver). Requires private employers with more than 15 employees to use status verification systems such as E-Verify. Requires public employers, contractors, and subcontractors to use E-Verify. |
Virginia | S 1049 H 737 | 2011 2010 | Requires public contractors and subcontractors with more than 50 employees to use E-Verify. Clarifies penalties for non-compliance with E-Verify. Requires state agencies to use E-Verify. |
West Virginia | SB 659 | 2012 | Requires a single public employer who provides security at the State Capitol to use E-Verify. |
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