Combat Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification Act

Bill: 110-hr-3982
Sponsor: Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]
Introduced: 2007-10-29 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alien labor
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Treasury
Electronic government information
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Executive reorganization
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Law
Personnel records
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Tax penalties
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: 
Combat Illegal Immigration Through Employment Verification Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make employment of unauthorized aliens unlawful. 
 
Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) employer document verification requirements; and (2) employment authorization and/or identity documents.
 
Sets forth employment eligibility verification system (EEVS) provisions.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) provide for the disclosure of certain taxpayer identity information to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assist in immigration enforcement; and (2) increase specified penalties for employer failure to provide correct information returns.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish within the Criminal Investigation office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a unit to investigate tax-related violations related to the employment of unauthorized aliens.
 
Sets forth IRS and Social Security Administration (SSA) immigration-related enforcement provisions. 
 
Provides for increases in worksite enforcement and immigration fraud detection personnel. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-11-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-10-29
text: Introduced in House