[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1806 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1806

    To make the E-Verify program permanent, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 2019

  Mr. Romney introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To make the E-Verify program permanent, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Permanent E-Verify Act''.

SEC. 2. PERMANENT AUTHORIZATION OF E-VERIFY.

    Section 401 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1324a note) is amended--
            (1) by amending the section heading to read as follows: 
        ``e-verify program''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``; 
                Termination''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Unless the Congress otherwise 
                provides, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
                terminate a pilot program on September 30, 2015.''.
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