CRC - 2017                                   COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. PCP 6010
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/05/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Style and Drafting (Jordan) recommended the
       following:
       
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the proposal clause
    4  and insert:
    5         A new section is added to Article X of the State
    6  Constitution to read:
    7                              ARTICLE X                            
    8                            MISCELLANEOUS                          
    9         Employment eligibility verification.—
   10         (a) An unauthorized alien may not work in this state
   11  contrary to federal immigration law.
   12         (b) By general law, the legislature shall:
   13         (1) Establish an employment eligibility verification
   14  process to ensure that all employees in this state are legally
   15  authorized to work under federal immigration law. Employment
   16  verification must be completed in a manner consistent with
   17  federal law, including within the established timeframe
   18  following the hire date of each new employee.
   19         (2) Enact a statewide random auditing program administered
   20  by an executive department to ensure compliance with the
   21  employment eligibility verification process and prescribe
   22  penalties for the failure to comply.
   23         (c) The legislature shall implement this section by July 1,
   24  2020, and the provisions of subsection (b) shall apply only to
   25  employees hired to work in this state after the date of
   26  implementation.
   27  
   28  BE IT FURTHER PROPOSED that the following statement be placed on
   29  the ballot:
   30  
   31         EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION.—Requires legislature
   32  to establish an employment eligibility verification process and
   33  to enact a random auditing program to enforce the existing
   34  prohibition on unauthorized aliens working in Florida in
   35  violation of federal immigration law.
   36  
   37  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   38  And the title is amended as follows:
   39         Delete everything before the proposal clause
   40  and insert:
   41                             REVISION 10                           
   42         A proposal to create a new section in Article X of the
   43         State Constitution to prohibit unauthorized aliens
   44         from working in the state and to require the
   45         legislature, by a specified date, to establish an
   46         employment eligibility verification process.