An Act To Ensure Fair Employment Opportunity for Maine Citizens and Legal Residents
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1307
Committee Amendment CA_A_H400 (House)
Amends: 26 MRSA §871-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "Pt" to H.P. 904, L.D. 1307, Bill, "An Act To 
Ensure Fair Employment Opportunity for Maine Citizens and Legal Residents" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §871-A is enacted to read: 
§871-A. Public employer and public contractor; work eligibility verification 
1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the 
following terms have the following meanings. 
A. "Federal immigration verification system" means the electronic verification of the 
work authorization program of the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996, 8 United States Code, Section 1324a, known as the 
E-Verify program, or an equivalent federal program designated by the United States 
Department of Homeland Security or other federal agency authorized to verify the 
work eligibility status of a newly hired employee pursuant to the federal Immigration 
Reform and Control Act of 1986. 
B. "Public contractor" means a contractor that is awarded a contract by a public 
employer for the physical performance of services in the State and any subcontractor 
of the contractor. 
C. "Public employer" means an agency or political subdivision of the State. 
2. Verification required. A public employer and a public contractor shall register 
with and use a federal immigration verification system to determine the work eligibility 
status of new employees physically performing services in the State. A contract between 
a public employer and public contractor must contain a provision requiring the public 
contractor to use a federal immigration verification system to determine the work 
eligibility status of new employees physically performing services in the State.' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
CQMMITIEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 904, L.D. 1307 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, replaces the bill and 
requires every public employer and public contractor to register with and use a federal 
immigration verification system, currently known as E-Verify, to determine the work 
eligibility status of new employees physically performing services within the State. 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/26/17 feac:. 
LD 1307 
LR 508(02) 
An Act To Ensure Fair Employment Opportunity for Maine Citizens and Legal Residents 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment •A• [ H' t/l)6) 
Committee: Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development 
State Mandates 
Required Activity 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded 
Requires all public employers in the State to register with and use a federal 
immigration verification system to determine the work eligibility of new employees 
physically performing services within the State. 
Unit Affected 
School 
Municipality 
County 
Public Utility 
Local Cost 
Moderate 
statewide 
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill 
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund 
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a 
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from 
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local 
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities. 
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