| State | Bill | Signed | Description |
Alabama | | | |
Alaska | | | |
Arizona | HB 2474 | 4/24/2007 | Relates to overtime compensation including certain aliens and minors permitted to work for hire. |
| HB 2779 | 7/2/2007 | Prohibits employers from knowingly or intentionally hiring undocumented workers. Requires all employers to use the Basic Pilot Program to determine employees’ legal status. Forms an committee to study employer-sanctions laws in Arizona. Provides penalties with respect to business licenses. |
Arkansas | HB 1024 - Act 157 | 2/28/2007 | State agencies are prohibited from contracting with businesses that employ illegal immigrants. Contractors must certify that they do not employ or contract with an illegal immigrant. |
| HB 1699 - Act 545 | 3/28/2007 | Amends the minimum wage and overtime law to parallel certain provisions of federal minimum wage and overtime law, excludes certain migrant farm laborers from the definition of an “employee”. |
| California | | | |
| Colorado | HB 1073 | 3/16/2007 | Concerns the use of the Basic Pilot Program in connection with a public contract for services in order to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. |
| | HB 1286 | 4/26/2007 | Concerns documentation that proves legal United States residence by an individual applying for unemployment insurance benefits pursuant to a reciprocal interstate agreement when the individual is not a Colorado resident. |
| Connecticut | | | |
| Delaware | | | |
| Florida | | | |
| Georgia | SB 184 - Act 147 | 5/18/07 | Relates to income taxes, provides an additional adjustment to taxable income of corporations with respect to certain disallowances, disallows as a business expense compensation paid by a taxpayer to an unauthorized employee. |
| Hawaii | HB 1379 - Act 070 | 5/16/2007 | Provides the same type of unemployment insurance (UI) coverage in state law as in federal law. Excludes certain alien agricultural workers. |
| | HB 1750 – Act 052 | 5/3/2007 | All persons seeking employment with the government of the State or in the service of any county must be citizens, nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States. |
| Idaho | | | |
| Illinois | H 1743 | To Governor | Relates to immigrant employment eligibility verification of Social Security numbers and Homeland Security databases. Provides for regulations of civil rights violation for an employer participating in the Basic Pilot Program. Prohibits discrimination on basis of citizenship. |
| | H 1744 | To Governor | Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Provides that employers are prohibited from enrolling in any Employment Eligibility Verification System, including the Basic Pilot program, as authorized by federal law, until the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security databases are able to make a determination on 99% of the tentative non-confirmation notices issued to employers within 3 days, unless otherwise required by federal law. Provides that the Department of Human Rights shall establish a statewide advisory council to study the effects of Employment Eligibility Verification Systems, including the Basic Pilot program, on employers and employees in Illinois. |
| | HB 166 | 8/6/2007 | Under this law, an employer who requests more or different documents than those required by US Immigration law to verify a prospective employee's eligibility staus would be committing a civil rights violation. |
| Indiana | | | |
| Iowa | SB 562 | 5/29/2007 | Businesses that receive state econmic development grants must certify that all new employees are authorized to work in the United States. |
| Kansas | SB 83 | 3/19/2007 | Concerns the employment security law, relates to contribution rates, relates to an unemployment tax account, excludes certain alien agricultural workers from the definition. |
| | SB 235 | 4/5/2007 | Concerns the Employment Security Law. The act excludes certain alien agricultural workers from the definition of employee. |
| Kentucky | HB 296 - Acts Chapter 93 | 5/23/2007 | Relates to workers' compensation self-insurance. For the purposes of this act “alien” is defined as a person who is not a citizen, a national, or a resident of the United States or Canada. |
| Louisiana | | | |
| Maine | SB 1015 | 6/5/2007 | An Act To Amend the Unemployment Laws – it creates a requirement of legal status for unemployment benefits from agricultural work. |
| Maryland | | | |
| Massachusetts | | | |
| Michigan | SB 299 | 10/31/2007 | This law directs state agencies to consider a variety of factors when awarding or canceling contracts with private businesses. The state shall consider the immigration and residency status of persons employed by a prospective contractor, and whether the use of non-citizen workers would be detrimental to state residents or the state economy. |
| Minnesota | SF 167 – Chapter 128 | 5/24/2007 | Relates to unemployment insurance. Personal data gathered from any person under the administration of the Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Law may be disseminated to federal Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration. An alien is ineligible for unemployment benefits for any week the alien is not authorized to work in the United States under federal law, unemployment benefits must not be paid on the basis of wage credits earned by an alien unless the alien (1) was lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of the employment, (2) was lawfully present for the purposes of the employment, (3) was permanently residing in the United States under color of law at the time of the employment. Any information required of applicants applying for unemployment benefits to determine eligibility because of their alien status must be required from all applicants. |
| Mississippi | SB 2448 | 4/25/2007 | Administration of unemployment compensation law by Mississippi Department of Employment Security. Benefits shall not be payable on the basis of services performed by an alien, unless such alien is an individual who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time such services were performed, was lawfully present for purposes of performing such services, or was permanently residing in the United States under color of law at the time such services were performed. |
| Missouri | | | |
| Montana | HB 111 - Chapter 52 | 3/27/2007 | Revises unemployment insurance laws. Exclusions from definition of employment: services performed by an alien as identified in 8 U.S.C. 1101, i.e. an alien having a residence in a foreign country coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services, or an alien, who is a bona fide student and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily and solely for the purpose of pursuing such a course of study. |
| | SB 214 – Chapter 340 | 4/28/2007 | Revises laws relating to independent contractors. Exclusions from definition of employment: services performed by an alien as identified in 8 U.S.C. 1101, i.e. an alien having a residence in a foreign country coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services, or an alien, who is a bona fide student and who seeks to enter the United States temporarily and solely for the purpose of pursuing such a course of study. |
| Nebraska | | | |
| Nevada | AB 496 - Chapter 537 | 6/15/2007 | Makes various changes concerning workers' compensation. The provisions of the act do not apply in favor of aliens who are nonresidents of the United States at the time of the accident, injury to, or death. |
| New Hampshire | | | |
| New Jersey | | | |
| New Mexico | HB 247 – Chapter 137 | 4/2/2007 | Concerns unemployment compensation, excludes certain aliens admitted to the United States to perform service in agricultural labor pursuant to INA. |
| New York | | | |
| North Carolina | | Drafting Process | Requires employers to use the Federal E-Verify Program or a similar verification of work authorization program. |
| North Dakota | | | |
| Ohio | | | |
| Oklahoma | H.B. 1804 | 11/1/2007, Enforcement delayed upon ruling | Every public employer shall register with and utilize a Status Verification System; After July 1, 2008, no public employer shall enter into a contract for the physical performance of services within this state unless the contractor registers and participates in the Status Verification System to verify the work eligibility status of all new employees. |
| Oregon | HB 2244/SB202 | 6/1/2007 | Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop a plan to eliminate the sunset of provisions related to permanent partial disability awards in workers' compensation claims. If the worker is a person present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, the insurer or self-insured employer shall cease payments. |
| Pennsylvania | | | |
| Rhode Island | H7107A/S2091 | | This act would require all nongovernmental employers within the state with (3) or more employees to apply to participate in the extended federal basic employment verification pilot program and to participate if accepted. The act would also impose a fine against an employer that does not apply to participate in the program. |
| South Carolina | R327, H4400 | 5/29/08 | Requires all employers no matter their size to verify the legal status of their new workers beginning summer of 2009, though businesses with fewer than 100 workers would have until the summer of 2010 to do so, and to use the federal electronic verification database or state driver’s licenses. |
| South Dakota | | | |
| Tennessee | HB 729 | 6/26/2007 | Creates the criminal offenses of recklessly employing an illegal alien, knowingly employing an illegal alien, and knowingly encouraging or inducing an illegal alien to enter the state for the purpose of employing such illegal alien. Provides for fines up to $50,000. |
| | SB 903 - Chapter 220 | 5/24/2007 | Prohibits the use in the state of a federal individual taxpayer identification number as a form of identification to prove immigration status. Provides that for purposes of an application or offer of employment, no person in this state shall accept an individual taxpayer identification number as a form of identification and any person, including any contractor, in this state who is presented with an individual taxpayer identification number by a potential employee or subcontractor as a form of identification or to prove immigration status shall reject such number and shall request the lawful resident verification information. |
| Texas | HB 1196 | 6/15/2007 | Relates to restrictions on the use of certain public subsidies to employ undocumented workers, provides that a public agency, state or local taxing jurisdiction, or economic development corporation shall require a business that submits an application to receive a public subsidy to include in the application a statement certifying that the business, or a branch, division, or department of the business, does not and will not knowingly employ an undocumented worker. |
| Utah | SB 103 | 3/13/2007 | An Act Concerning Ineligibility for Unemployment Compensation Benefits. Defines ineligibility for Unemployment Compensation Benefits, this includes not having legal status. |
| Vermont | | | |
| Virginia | HB 2294 | 3/27/2007 | An Act relating to the Virginia Workers' Compensation Act; employees of local governments. As the legislation pertains to immigrants, it defines the term “aliens and minors” as being capable of definition as an employee. |
| Washington | SB 5774 - Chapter 387 | 5/8/2007 Partial Veto of Sec 6 & 7 | Section 6 of the Bill was vetoed by the Governor. This section would have provided for a work group examining the need for and feasibility of verifying citizenship or immigration status of persons for whom background checks are required. The act revises background check requirements for the departments of Social and Health Services and Early Learning. |
| West Virginia | SB 70 - Chapter 144 | 4/3/2007 | Makes is unlawful for any employer to knowingly employ an unauthorized worker. Employers are required to verify a prospective employee's legal status or authorization to work. The law also provides for penalties for employing unauthorized workers, including fines, jail sentences and revocation of business licenses. |
| Wisconsin | | | |
| Wyoming | | | |
