YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyWorkers & JobsTransparency & AccountabilityColleges would have to use E-Verify — and students could lose federal aid at schools caught breaking immigration hiring law.
Your Money
A college found breaking the federal law on hiring workers who lack the right to work here would lose federal student aid. That law also covers failing to check new hires' work papers. No end date is set, so students there would lose that aid.
Workers & Jobs
To keep federal student aid, a college would have to use E-Verify. It checks each new hire's Social Security or work permit number to see if they may work here.
Transparency & Accountability
Every six months, Homeland Security would check that each college uses E-Verify. If a school skips it or breaks the hiring law, Homeland Security must tell the Education Department. It has 10 days.
More about this bill
Students could lose federal student aid at a college that breaks immigration hiring law. If a college is found hiring workers who lack the right to work here, it would lose federal student aid and other federal school aid. The same law also covers skipping the required paper check on new hires. No end date is set for the cutoff. Every college in federal student aid would also have to use E-Verify. E-Verify is the federal tool that checks if a new hire may legally work in the U.S. Homeland Security would check every six months that each college uses it. It would have 10 days to tell the Education Department when it finds a college that breaks the hiring law or skips E-Verify.
Congressional Summary
College Employment Accountability Act This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) from receiving certain federal funds or participating in federal student aid programs if the IHE does not take certain actions to prohibit the employment at the IHE of non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who do not have work authorization. Specifically, the bill prohibits an IHE from receiving federal funds for student assistance or institutional aid if the IHE employs unauthorized individuals in violation of a specified section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). (The section prohibits an employer from knowingly hiring, recruiting or referring for a fee, or continuing to employ a non-U.S. national who lacks work authorization.) Additionally, the bill requires an IHE that participates in federal student aid programs to participate in the E-Verify system. (This system allows employers and recruiters to verify an individual's eligibility for employment. The system is largely voluntary; however, federal employers, including federal contractors, must use E-Verify. Some IHEs currently participate in the system.) The bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to, every six months, monitor whether an IHE is participating in the E-Verify system. Further, DHS must notify the Department of Education within 10 days of finding that an IHE (1) employs unauthorized individuals in violation of the INA, or (2) is not participating in the E-Verify system.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-26
- Date Added
- 2026-10-08
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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