House Amendment 2035


PAG LIN




     1  1    Amend Senate File 601, as amended, passed, and
     1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
     1  3 #1.  Page 39, by inserting after line 23 the
     1  4 following:
     1  5    <Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  91F.1  UNAUTHORIZED
     1  6 ALIENS == EMPLOYER PROHIBITION.
     1  7    An employer shall not knowingly employ as an
     1  8 employee an unauthorized alien.  For purposes of this
     1  9 section, "knowingly employ as an employee an
     1 10 unauthorized alien" includes cases in which an
     1 11 employer actually knows a person is an unauthorized
     1 12 alien and cases in which any person exercising
     1 13 reasonable care should know from facts and
     1 14 circumstances that a person is an unauthorized alien.
     1 15    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  91F.2  PENALTIES.
     1 16    1.  An employer who violates section 91F.1 is
     1 17 subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand
     1 18 dollars for each violation.
     1 19    2.  An employer who, through repeated violation of
     1 20 section 91F.1, demonstrates a pattern of employing
     1 21 unauthorized aliens may be ordered to pay punitive
     1 22 damages.
     1 23    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  91F.3  UNAUTHORIZED ALIEN
     1 24 EMPLOYER PROSECUTION FUND.
     1 25    1.  An unauthorized alien employer prosecution fund
     1 26 is created as a separate fund in the state treasury to
     1 27 be administered by the attorney general.  Moneys
     1 28 credited to the fund shall include civil penalties
     1 29 assessed and punitive damages awarded under section
     1 30 91F.2.
     1 31    2.  For each year not more than fifty thousand
     1 32 dollars is appropriated from the fund to the
     1 33 department of justice to be used for the investigation
     1 34 and prosecution of employers hiring unauthorized
     1 35 aliens, including reimbursement of expenses incurred
     1 36 by county, municipal, and other local government
     1 37 agencies cooperating with the attorney general in the
     1 38 investigation and prosecution of the hiring of
     1 39 unauthorized aliens.
     1 40    3.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited
     1 41 to the fund shall not revert to any other fund.
     1 42 Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest or earnings on
     1 43 moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.>
     1 44 #2.  By renumbering as necessary.
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     1 48 RANTS of Woodbury
     1 49 SF 601.220 82
     1 50 jm/es/10010

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