YourVoice.Now Summary
Average Household ImpactTransparency & AccountabilityColleges would have to use E-Verify and could lose all federal student aid if caught employing unauthorized workers.
Average Household Impact
- Federal student aid access — At risk for all students if a school is found in violation
Transparency & Accountability
- Employment verification requirement — Colleges must use E-Verify to keep student-aid eligibility
- Monitoring requirements — Homeland Security checks participation every 6 months
- Notification requirements — Education Department notified within 10 days of a finding
The details
Colleges that employ workers without legal authorization would lose federal student aid money. Any school found to violate the immigration law's employer provisions could not receive federal student assistance or federal institutional aid. Schools would also have to enroll in E-Verify to stay eligible for any federal student aid program. E-Verify is the federal system that checks whether a new hire may legally work. Homeland Security would check every six months whether each school is using E-Verify. It would have to notify the Education Department within 10 days of finding a school in violation, or finding that a school is not participating.
Congressional Summary
College Employment Accountability ActThis 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
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-25
- Date Added
- 2026-08-05
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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