Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
The bill (College Employment Accountability Act) amends the Higher Education Act to bar any institution of higher education from receiving federal student or institutional aid if the institution is found to violate INA section 274A (employment of unauthorized aliens).
It requires institutions to participate in the federal E-Verify employment-authorization program to be eligible for Title IV programs.
The Department of Homeland Security must monitor E-Verify participation every six months and notify the Secretary of Education within 10 days if an institution is nonparticipating or found in violation of INA 274A.
High controversy, substantial fiscal and regulatory effects, and few compromise features reduce enactment prospects absent major bargaining.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly establishes a substantive change by conditioning Title IV eligibility on compliance with INA section 274A and mandatory E-Verify participation, and it assigns basic monitoring/notification responsibilities to DHS. However, it provides limited operational detail about enforcement, procedural safeguards, definitions, and funding.
Progressives focus on civil-rights and student-harm risks
Progressives focus on civil-rights and student-harm risks
Skeptical and likely opposed.
They will view mandatory E-Verify and withholding Title IV funds as risking discriminatory hiring, chilling campus employment for immigrant students and staff, and harming low-income students.
They will also raise concerns about due process and accuracy of E-Verify.
Mixed; supportive of enforcing employment law but concerned about implementation and unintended harms.
They will weigh public accountability against administrative burdens and risk to students and research activities.
They will seek safeguards, phased implementation, and clarity on enforcement.
Generally supportive.
They will welcome mandatory E-Verify and tying federal student aid to compliance with immigration employment law as effective enforcement.
They will emphasize accountability and reducing incentives to employ unauthorized workers.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
High controversy, substantial fiscal and regulatory effects, and few compromise features reduce enactment prospects absent major bargaining.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives focus on civil-rights and student-harm risks
High controversy, substantial fiscal and regulatory effects, and few compromise features reduce enactment prospects absent major bargaining.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill clearly establishes a substantive change by conditioning Title IV eligibility on compliance with INA section 274A and mandatory E-Verify participation, and it assigns…
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