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Arizona
Key Vote
Employment of Undocumented Immigrants
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that imposes penalties on employers who knowingly or intentionally employ undocumented immigrants.
Official Title of Legislation:
An Act amending Section 13-2009, Arizona Revised Statutes; Amending Title 23, Chapter 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by Adding Article 2; making appropriations; relating to employment.
Official Synopsis:
HB 2779 contains provisions relating to identity theft, license eligibility of employers in Arizona, verification of the employment eligibility of employees and establishes the eight-member Employer Sanctions Legislative Study Committee. In addition, HB 2779 appropriates $2,600,000 from the state General Fund (GF) FY 2007-08 for carrying out the provisions of the bill.
Highlights:
-Amends the definition of aggravated taking of identity so that if a person possesses or uses identifying information of three people for illegal purposes, rather than five, then he or she is guilty of a class 3 felony (Sec. 1).
-Establishes that taking another persons identity in order to be employed is a class 3 felony (Sec. 1).
-Prohibits an employer from knowingly or intentionally employing an undocumented immigrant (Sec. 2).
-Requires that a business that has been convicted of a first offense of knowingly employing an undocumented immigrant to (Sec. 2):- Terminate the employment of all undocumented immigrants.
-Submit to a three year probationary period during which the employer must submit quarterly reports to the state on all new hires.
-File an affidavit that states that the employer has terminated the employment of all undocumented immigrants. - Revokes the employers business licenses if the employer fails to meet these provisions, until the affidavit is filed and provides that the licenses may be revoked for up to ten additional days, depending on the severity of the violation (Sec. 2).
-Provides that for a first violation on the prohibition against intentionally employing an undocumented immigrant the employer must meet the above requirements (with the probationary period increased to five years) and requires that the employers business license(s) be suspended for a minimum of ten days (Sec. 2).
-Revokes the employers business license(s) permanently for a second violation during the probationary period of the prohibition on knowingly or intentionally hiring an undocumented immigrant (Sec. 2).
-Establishes an employer sanctions legislative study committee that consists of three senate members, three house members, and two business owners to examine the implementation of the provisions of the bill and submit a report by December 31, 2008 (Sec. 4).
-Appropriates $2.6 million for the purpose of the provisions of the bill (Sec. 7&8).
Full Text of Legislation (PDF Document)
House Passage: 03/15/2007 : Bill Passed: 46 - 13 Senate Passage With Amendment: 05/23/2007 : Bill Passed: 23 - 4 House Conference Report Vote: 06/20/2007 : Conference Report Adopted 47 - 11 Senate Conference Report Vote: 06/20/2007 : Conference Report Adopted: 20 - 4 Governor Passage: 07/02/2007 : Signed
Sponsors: Rep. Barnes, Ray
Sen. Bee, Timothy (out of office)
Sen. Blendu, Robert (out of office)
Rep. Boone, Tom
Rep. Burges, Judy
| Rep. Farnsworth, Eddie (out of office)
Rep. Groe, Trish (out of office)
Sen. Johnson, Karen (out of office)
Rep. Kavanagh, John
Rep. Murphy, Rick
| Rep. Pearce, Russell (out of office)
Sen. Verschoor, Thayer
Rep. Yarbrough, Steven
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Cosponsors: Rep. Anderson, Mark (out of office)
Rep. Biggs, Andy
Sen. Burns, Robert
Rep. Clark, Doug (out of office)
Sen. Gould, Ron
| Sen. Gray, Linda
Sen. Harper, Jack
Rep. McClure, Marian Ann (out of office)
Rep. McComish, John
Rep. McLain, Nancy
| Rep. Nichols, Warde
Rep. Robson, Bob (out of office)
Rep. Stump, Bob (out of office)
Rep. Weiers, Jerry
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