Bill Text: MI HB6026 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced

Michigan House Bill 6026 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Public employees and officers: state; state contractors; require to verify legal residency of employees. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-10-17 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/17/2024 [HB6026 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB6026-Introduced.html

HOUSE BILL NO. 6026

October 17, 2024, Introduced by Rep. Tisdel and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to require verification that public contracts are performed by employees who are entitled to work in the United States; to prescribe acceptable methods for verifying legal presence in the United States; to condition the eligibility of employers to perform certain public contracts on participation in the federal immigrant verification system; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities; to provide for the promulgation of rules; and to provide sanctions and penalties.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the "public contract and employment eligibility verification act".

Sec. 3. As used in this act:

(a) "E-verify" means the electronic verification of work authorization program of 8 USC 1324a that is operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security or any equivalent federal work authorization program operated by the United States Department of Homeland Security or any other designated federal agency authorized to verify the documentation of newly hired employees, pursuant to the immigration reform and control act of 1986, PL 99-603.

(b) "Employer" means a person who employs for compensation 10 or more individuals at 1 time during a calendar year.

(c) "Form I-9" means the employment verification form that fulfills the employment verification obligations under 8 CFR 274a.2.

(d) "Public employer" means a department, agency, or instrumentality of this state or a political subdivision of this state.

(e) "Subcontractor" includes a subcontractor, contract employee, staffing agency, and contractor.

Sec. 5. (1) A public employer shall register and participate in the E-verify system to verify the documentation of each new employee.

(2) A public employer shall not enter into a contract for the performance of services within this state unless the contractor registers and participates in the E-verify program to verify the documentation of all of the contractor's new employees.

(3) A contractor or subcontractor shall not enter into a contract or subcontract with a public employer for the performance of services within this state unless the contractor or subcontractor registers and participates in the E-verify system to verify the documentation of all new employees.

Sec. 7. The department of labor and economic opportunity shall promulgate rules to implement this act under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.

Sec. 9. (1) An employer or public employer shall verify the lawful presence of an individual in the United States as required under section 5 by obtaining a form I-9 or, in the case of an independent contractor, an affidavit that the independent contractor and each of the independent contractor's new employees executes under penalty of perjury and that states that the new employee is 1 of the following:

(a) A United States citizen.

(b) A qualified alien as that term is defined in 8 USC 1641, and is lawfully present in the United States.

(2) The employer or public employer shall further verify, through the E-verify system, the status of an individual who has executed a form I-9 or an affidavit described in subsection (1). Until the further eligibility verification is made, the form I-9 or the affidavit is presumed to be proof of lawful presence for the purposes of this section.

(3) An individual who knowingly and willfully makes a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation in a form I-9 or an affidavit executed under this section is guilty of perjury punishable as provided in section 423 of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.423.

(4) An individual who willfully and repeatedly violates this act is responsible for a state civil infraction and may be ordered to pay a civil fine of not less than $100.00 and not more than $1,000.00 per violation.

Sec. 11. (1) An employer that violates section 5(3) is prohibited from contracting with any public body in this state for a period of 1 year after the date of the final determination of that violation by a public body or court of law.

(2) A public employer shall immediately terminate for default the public contract or subcontract of a subcontractor found to have employed 2 or more unauthorized aliens during the period in which the subcontractor was in violation of section 5(3).

(3) An employer that has complied with section 5(3), including cooperation with the investigation of an alleged violation by a subcontractor, is not subject to the sanctions under this section for a subcontractor or individual independent contractor.

Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.