Bill > SF2412

Introduced Session

This bill relates to qualifications for state and local government employment and professional licensure. The bill requires each head of a department or independent agency of this state, the state board of regents, each regents institution, the board of directors of each school district, the board of supervisors of each county, and each city to use the e-verify system of the U.S. citizenship and immigration services to confirm the employment eligibility of newly hired employees. The bill creates within the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing a clearinghouse to process requests to verify, using the systematic alien verification for entitlements system of the U.S. department of homeland security and the U.S. citizenship and immigration services (SAVE program), the United States citizenship and immigration status of individuals who have applied for a professional license in this state. The bill requires professional licensing boards to use the SAVE program clearinghouse to verify the U.S. citizenship and immigration status of an individual who has applied for a professional license from the board and to decline to issue or renew a license if the licensing board is unable to verify that the person is lawfully present in the United States. The bill requires the denial of an application for a professional license due to the results of the SAVE program clearinghouse check to be appealed to the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing, and the decision of the director shall constitute a final agency action. The bill also requires a licensing board established after January 1, 1978, to adopt rules for the revocation or suspension of a license that the licensing board deems to be a professional license if the licensee is unlawfully present in the United States, as determined by using the SAVE program clearinghouse.

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Committee report, approving bill. S.J. 342. (on 02/19/2026)

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