American Labor, Wages, and Sovereignty Act or the American LAWS Act
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and (2) reduce the worldwide fiscal year level for family-sponsored immigration.
Legal Workforce Act
The bill revises the employment eligibility verification process. It also increases employer penalties for the unlawful hiring of illegal aliens.
The bill establishes a nonimmigrant alien visa for the parent of a U.S. citizen who is at least 21 years old.
The Department of Homeland Security shall establish: (1) an employment eligibility verification system (EEVS), patterned after the E-Verify system; (2) programs to block the use of misused social security numbers and suspend the use of social security account numbers of identity fraud victims; and (3) at least two Identity Authentication Employment Eligibility Verification pilot programs using distinct technologies to provide employers with identity authentication and employment verification of new employees.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-13 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. | House committee actions |
| 2017-11-09 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2017-11-09 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2017-11-09 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2017-11-09 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |