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Introduced June 4, 2025 by Brandon Gill · Last progress June 4, 2025
The bill gives employers who use E‑Verify clearer protections and financial safeguards while expanding data sharing, extended audit windows, and reliance on E‑Verify that raise privacy, discrimination, and cost risks for workers and some employers.
Employers who use E‑Verify and obtain compliant confirmations are less likely to face tax or illegal‑hire assessments and can retain wage tax deductions, reducing compliance risk and liability for businesses.
The bill clarifies timing, procedures, and safe‑harbor rules for E‑Verify (including the 'specified period' and post‑hiring inquiries), which standardizes employer obligations and should reduce administrative confusion.
Employers may condition job offers on final E‑Verify confirmation and may apply E‑Verify across all or part of operations, giving businesses flexibility to manage hiring risk and compliance programmatically.
Immigrants and other job applicants/employees face increased risk of job denial, wrongful termination, or discriminatory treatment because E‑Verify errors, database mismatches, and conditioned offers can exclude lawful workers.
Employers who unknowingly hire unauthorized workers can lose wage tax deductions and face higher tax liabilities and a longer audit/collection window, creating prolonged financial uncertainty and potentially deterring hiring.
Expanded interagency data‑sharing and IRS disclosures of employer/individual identity increase privacy and data‑security risks for workers and employers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Disallows business tax deductions for wages to unauthorized immigrants, expands E‑Verify participation and protections for employers, and permits limited interagency data sharing to enforce rules.
The bill denies business tax deductions for wages paid to unauthorized immigrants and strengthens enforcement by allowing limited data sharing among Social Security, DHS, and Treasury. It adds procedural changes that make E‑Verify a clearer compliance tool for employers, creates a safe harbor when employers use E‑Verify correctly, and extends the IRS assessment window when improper deductions are claimed. The measure also makes certain E‑Verify regulatory language permanent and expands who may opt into the voluntary E‑Verify system, lets employers condition offers on final E‑Verify confirmation, and shifts some burdens and disclosure rules to help identify situations where wage deductions were claimed for unauthorized workers.