BILL NUMBER: AB 622	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act relating to employment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 622, as introduced, Roger Hernández. Employment: E-Verify
Program.
   The federal E-Verify Program, administered by the United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Department of
Homeland Security, and the United States Social Security
Administration, enables participating employers to use the program,
on a voluntary basis, to verify that the employees they hire are
authorized to work in the United States.
   Existing law prohibits the state, or a city, county, city and
county, or special district, from requiring an employer, other than
one of those government entities, to use an electronic employment
verification system, including the E-Verify Program, except when
required by federal law or as a condition of receiving federal funds.
Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person or entity
from engaging in unfair immigration-related practices, as defined,
against any person for the purpose of retaliating against any person
for exercising specified rights.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would prohibit employers or employment agencies,
except as required by federal law or as a condition of receiving
federal funds, from using the E-Verify Program for any applicant for
employment, and that would expand the definition of an unlawful
employment practice to prohibit an employer or employment agency's
use of any electronic employment verification system on an applicant.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would prohibit employers or employment agencies,
except as required by federal law or as a condition of receiving
federal funds, from using the E-Verify Program for any applicant for
employment, and that would expand the definition of an unlawful
employment practice to prohibit an employer or employment agency's
use of any electronic employment verification system on an applicant.