The bill provides for the Department of Homeland Securitys basic pilot program. Specifically. DHSs electronic employment eligibility verification program (known as "Basic Pilot" or "EVerify") is scheduled to expire in November 2008. This legislation reauthorizes EVerity as a voluntary pilot program for an additional 5 yearsthrough 2013. EVerity is an internetbased system that can be used to verify the employment eligibility of newlyhired employees. It does so by checking an employees Social Security number and citizenship status against the Social Security database and. for noncitizens. it checks work authorization status against a separate DHS database. In the last 2 years. over a dozen states have passed employee verification laws. Some. like Arizona have mandated EVerity for all employers while other states require employers in certain sectors. such as government employers and contractors. to verity their employees work authorization status. The Federal government is also increasingly requiring EVerifys use. On June 6. 2008. President Bush signed an amendment to Executive Order 12989 requiring that more than 200.000 federal contractors to use EVerify. This action will likely triple the number of requests that must be processed through EVerity. Importantly. the bill provides certain protections to Social Security beneficiaries.
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