Unlawful Employers Accountability and Illegal Alien State Reimbursement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2271
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2007-05-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agricultural subsidies
Agriculture and Food
Alien labor
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Employee selection
Employers' liability
Farmers
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health
Illegal aliens
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Law
Public health
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-10
text: 
Unlawful Employers Accountability and Illegal Alien State Reimbursement Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise (based upon the number of employees) and increase civil money penalties for employers who knowingly hire, recruit, refer, or continue to employ illegal aliens in the United States. Makes employers liable for federal, state, and local costs associated with such aliens' removal.
 
Considers each subdivision as a separate employer in the case of an employer composed of distinct, physically separate subdivisions each of which provides separately for hiring, recruiting, or referring and which is not under the control of another subdivision.
 
Denies specified agricultural assistance for up to five years for an agricultural employer, association, or farm labor contractor in violation of such employment provisions.
 
Eliminates good faith defense provisions.
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to maintain a website of employers determined to have been in violation of such provisions within the preceding five years.
 
Makes repeat employer violators or employers subject to criminal penalties for such violations ineligible for federal contracts for five years.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish in the Treasury the Illegal Alien State Reimbursement Fund to reimburse eligible states (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands) for payments to local educational agencies, public health care providers, and law enforcement agencies for costs associated with serving aliens unlawfully present in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-11
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and Labor, and Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-10
text: Introduced in House