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TexasTowelie

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Fri Feb 3, 2017, 10:22 PM Feb 2017

NC House bill aims to make more small businesses use E-Verify to check new workers' immigration stat

NC House bill aims to make more small businesses use E-Verify to check new workers' immigration status

A group of state House Republicans, including one from Forsyth County, is attempting again to make the federal E-Verify employment tracking tool a requirement for more small businesses.

The electronic tool checks the immigration status of new workers.

House Bill 35, co-sponsored by Rep. Debra Conrad, R-Forsyth, would lower the mandatory E-Verify requirement threshold from 25 employees — where it has been since July 2013 — to five.

Conrad could not be reached for comment in the bill.

An exemption would remain for state agencies, counties, cities and other government bodies.

Read more: http://www.journalnow.com/news/elections/local/nc-house-bill-aims-to-make-more-small-businesses-use/article_fbaf0b06-6754-5046-9c10-d0fcb3d1b0c4.html
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