Senate File 2203

                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  WARNSTADT


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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the unauthorized hiring of aliens in the
  2    United States, and providing a penalty.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN

  1  1    Section 1.  Section 715A.2A, subsection 3, paragraph c,
  1  2 Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  For a third or subsequent violation, not less than
  1  4 three seven thousand five hundred dollars and not more than
  1  5 ten thousand dollars for each unauthorized alien hired or
  1  6 employed.
  1  7                           EXPLANATION
  1  8    This bill relates to the unauthorized hiring of aliens in
  1  9 the United States.
  1 10    The bill raises the minimum civil penalty for a third or
  1 11 subsequent offense by an employer who hires an unauthorized
  1 12 alien from $3,000 to $7,500.  The maximum penalty is $10,000
  1 13 for a third or subsequent violation.
  1 14    Under the bill and in current law, an employer on a first
  1 15 offense hiring of an unauthorized alien shall pay a civil
  1 16 penalty of not less than $250 and not more than $2,000, and
  1 17 for a second penalty an employer pays not less than $2,000 and
  1 18 not more than $5,000.
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