House File 344 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  STRUYK, WINDSCHITL, RAECKER,
                                           FORRISTALL, DE BOEF, HUSEMAN,
                                           DEYOE, and SWEENEY


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to civil penalties for employers hiring persons
  2    not authorized to be employed in the United States.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1551YH 83
  5 ec/rj/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 715A.2A, subsection 3, paragraph a,
  1  2 Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  An employer who violates this section shall cease and
  1  4 desist from further violations and shall pay the following
  1  5 civil penalty:
  1  6    (1)  For a first violation, not less than two hundred and
  1  7 fifty one thousand dollars and not more than two thousand
  1  8 dollars for each day an unauthorized alien hired or has been
  1  9 employed.
  1 10    (2)  For a second violation, not less than two thousand
  1 11 dollars and not more than five thousand dollars for each day
  1 12 an unauthorized alien hired or has been employed.
  1 13    (3)  For a third or subsequent violation, not less than
  1 14 three thousand dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars
  1 15 for each day an unauthorized alien hired or has been employed.
  1 16                           EXPLANATION
  1 17    This bill provides that the civil penalty for an employer's
  1 18 first violation with respect to the hiring or continued
  1 19 employment of an alien in the United States is not less than
  1 20 $1,000 for each day an unauthorized alien has been employed.
  1 21 Current law provides that the civil penalty for an employer's
  1 22 first violation is not less than $250 and not more than $2,000
  1 23 for each unauthorized alien hired.
  1 24    The bill also eliminates the maximum penalties applicable
  1 25 for a second or third violation and provides that the
  1 26 penalties are assessed for each day an unauthorized alien is
  1 27 employed and not for each unauthorized alien employed.
  1 28 LSB 1551YH 83
  1 29 ec/rj/8.1