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  • Introduced
    Feb 17, 2025
  • Passed Senate
  • Passed House
  • Signed into Law
SB 782
Florida Senate Bill
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Immigration; Revising the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Economic Accountability and Transparency within the Department of Commerce; revising penalties, including suspension and revocation of certain licenses and the imposition of fines, for violating provisions related to employing unauthorized aliens; revising the definition of the term “employee”; requiring that all private employers, rather than only those employing a specified number or more of employees, use the E-Verify system to verify a new employee’s employment eligibility, etc.
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Senate • Jun 16, 2025: Died in Commerce and Tourism
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Immigration Status and Employment Eligibility; Revising penalties for employment of unauthorized aliens; requiring all private employers use E-Verify for a specified purpose; authorizing law enforcement agencies to use E-Verify for a specific purpose.
Employment Eligibility; Requires that all private employers, rather than only those employing more than specified number of employees, use E-Verify system to verify new employee's employment eligibility beginning on specified date.
Services to Noncitizens; Authorizes county to require proof that certain borrowers are lawfully present in United States; prohibits state & local governmental entities & private corporations from providing down payment assistance to person who is not lawfully in United States; requires immediate repayment of downpayment assistance & initiation of foreclosure proceedings; restricts eligibility for ...
Immigration and State-issued Identification; Creates Office for New Americans in Department of Commerce; provides requirements for Office for New Americans; provides that discrimination based on person's immigration status is unlawful; revises provisions of law relating to driver licenses, licensing, E-Verify System, the practice of law, federal immigration detainers, law enforcement agencies, DNA...
Services to Noncitizens; Authorizing a county to require proof that certain borrowers are lawfully present in the United States; restricting eligibility for the Florida Homeownership Assistance Program and the Florida Hometown Hero Program, respectively, to persons who are lawfully present in the United States; requiring that all private employers, rather than only those employing a specified numb...
Immigration and State-issued Identification; Citing this act as the “Florida Economic Prosperity and Immigration Act”; establishing the Office for New Americans in the Department of Commerce; deleting a provision authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to require applicants to produce certain documents from the United States Department of Homeland Security for certain p...

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  • Jun 16, 2025 | Senate
    • Died in Commerce and Tourism
  • May 03, 2025 | Senate
    • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  • Mar 04, 2025 | Senate
    • Introduced
  • Feb 28, 2025 | Senate
    • Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Rules
  • Feb 17, 2025 | Senate
    • Filed
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