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Monday, April 6, 2009

GEORGIA BILL WOULD IMPOSE TOUGHER SANCTIONS ON GOV'T AGENCIES AND CONTRACTORS NOT USING E-VERIFY

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

A bill likely to pass the General Assembly this week gives the state more power to force local compliance with a 2006 anti-illegal-immigration law. Supporters say the bill is needed because the previous law wasn’t enforced.

The measure would require local governments, state agencies and companies that do public business to show they are using federal databases to make sure they don’t hire illegal workers or provide them with public benefits. If they don’t, local governments would face cuts in state road funding and other penalties, and companies could have contracts revoked.

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H.B. 2, initially sponsored by Rep. Tom Rice (R-Norcross), passed the House and was approved by the Senate Public Safety Committee last week with no opposition.

Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) told the committee that the bill was necessary because the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, which Rogers sponsored in 2006, was being ignored by local governments.

Incidentally, Siskind Susser Atlanta office managing attorney Karen Weinstock is quoted in the story.

Since the AJC published the article, the bill passed in the Senate. The bill must now go back to the Georgia House or go to a conference committee since the bill passed in the Senate is not identical to the one previously passed in the House.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 7:45 AM

Monday, April 6, 2009

GEORGIA BILL WOULD IMPOSE TOUGHER SANCTIONS ON GOV'T AGENCIES AND CONTRACTORS NOT USING E-VERIFY

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