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Representative reintroduces E-Verify requirement for smaller Utah employers; committee holds bill for further work
Summary
Representative Walter proposed lowering the E-Verify employer-size threshold to require nearly all employers with five or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system; the committee heard extensive public testimony from chambers, industry groups and agriculture organizations and voted to hold the bill for additional stakeholder work.
Representative Walter presented House Bill 214 to the Business, Labor and Commerce Committee; the bill would change Utah's statutory E-Verify threshold to require employers with five or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system to verify work authorization. The sponsor said his intent is to reduce identity theft and to increase compliance, citing Social Security-number misuse and a recent state-level drop in the threshold from 15 to 150 enacted in prior sessions.
Nut graf: The proposal drew extensive public testimony from business, agriculture and chamber groups, as well as from immigrant-advocacy and worker advocates; after a broad discussion about economic impacts and enforcement realities, committee members voted to hold the bill so…
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