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Union Calendar No. 508 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1772 
[Report No. 113–677, Part I] 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make mandatory and 
permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment 
eligibility verification system, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 26, 2013 
Mr. SMITH of Texas (for himself, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. 
GOWDY, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. LANCE, Mr. KING of 
New York, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. FRANKS of Ari-
zona, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, Mr. ROYCE, Mrs. BLACK-
BURN, Mr. FORBES, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. LABRADOR, Mr. 
FARENTHOLD, Mr. HOLDING, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, and Mr. ISSA) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means and Edu-
cation and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
DECEMBER 16, 2014 
Additional sponsors: Mr. HECK of Nevada, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. 
CULBERSON, Mr. BACHUS, Mr. HALL, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. FRELING-
HUYSEN, Mr. KINGSTON, Mr. STEWART, Mr. BROOKS of Alabama, and 
Mr. MARCHANT 
DECEMBER 16, 2014 
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
DECEMBER 16, 2014 
The Committees on Ways and Means and Education and the Workforce dis-
charged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State 
of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 26, 2013] 
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A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make 
mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use 
of an electronic employment eligibility verification sys-
tem, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legal Workforce Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION PROCESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 274A(b) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(b)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION PROC-
ESS.— 
‘‘(1) NEW
HIRES, RECRUITMENT, AND
REFER-
RAL.—The requirements referred to in paragraphs 
(1)(B) and (3) of subsection (a) are, in the case of a 
person or other entity hiring, recruiting, or referring 
an individual for employment in the United States, 
the following: 
‘‘(A) ATTESTATION AFTER EXAMINATION OF 
DOCUMENTATION.— 
‘‘(i) 
ATTESTATION.—During 
the 
verification period (as defined in subpara-
graph (E)), the person or entity shall attest, 
under penalty of perjury and on a form, in-
cluding electronic and telephonic formats, 
designated or established by the Secretary 
by regulation not later than 6 months after 
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the date of the enactment of the Legal Work-
force Act, that it has verified that the indi-
vidual is not an unauthorized alien by— 
‘‘(I) obtaining from the individual 
the individual’s social security account 
number and recording the number on 
the form (if the individual claims to 
have been issued such a number), and, 
if the individual does not attest to 
United States nationality under sub-
paragraph (B), obtaining such identi-
fication or authorization number estab-
lished by the Department of Homeland 
Security for the alien as the Secretary 
of Homeland Security may specify, 
and recording such number on the 
form; and 
‘‘(II) examining— 
‘‘(aa) a document relating to 
the individual presenting it de-
scribed in clause (ii); or 
‘‘(bb) a document relating to 
the individual presenting it de-
scribed in clause (iii) and a docu-
ment relating to the individual 
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presenting it described in clause 
(iv). 
‘‘(ii) DOCUMENTS
EVIDENCING
EM-
PLOYMENT
AUTHORIZATION
AND
ESTAB-
LISHING IDENTITY.—A document described 
in this subparagraph is an individual’s— 
‘‘(I) 
unexpired 
United 
States 
passport or passport card; 
‘‘(II) unexpired permanent resi-
dent card that contains a photograph; 
‘‘(III) unexpired employment au-
thorization card that contains a photo-
graph; 
‘‘(IV) in the case of a non-
immigrant alien authorized to work for 
a specific employer incident to status, 
a foreign passport with Form I–94 or 
Form I–94A, or other documentation 
as designated by the Secretary speci-
fying the alien’s nonimmigrant status 
as long as the period of status has not 
yet expired and the proposed employ-
ment is not in conflict with any re-
strictions or limitations identified in 
the documentation; 
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‘‘(V) passport from the Federated 
States of Micronesia (FSM) or the Re-
public of the Marshall Islands (RMI) 
with Form I–94 or Form I–94A, or 
other documentation as designated by 
the 
Secretary, 
indicating 
non-
immigrant admission under the Com-
pact of Free Association Between the 
United States and the FSM or RMI; or 
‘‘(VI) other document designated 
by the Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, if the document— 
‘‘(aa) contains a photograph 
of the individual and biometric 
identification data from the indi-
vidual and such other personal 
identifying information relating 
to the individual as the Secretary 
of Homeland Security finds, by 
regulation, sufficient for purposes 
of this clause; 
‘‘(bb) is evidence of author-
ization of employment in the 
United States; and 
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