GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 423
AN ACT TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES TO THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 96-13(f) reads as rewritten:
"(f)
(1) Benefits shall not be payable on the
basis of services performed by an alien unless such alien is an individual who has
been was lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time
such services were performed, or otherwise is was permanently
residing in the United States under color of law at the time such services
were performed, or was lawfully present for purposes of performing such
services (including an alien who is lawfully present in the United States as a
result of the application of the provisions of section 203 (a)(7) or section
212 (d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act). Any data or information
required of individuals applying for benefits to determine whether benefits are
not payable to them because of their alien status shall be uniformly required
from all applicants for benefits. In the case of an individual whose
application for benefits would otherwise be approved, no determination that
compensation to such individual is not payable because of his alien status
shall be made except upon a preponderance of the evidence.
(2) An individual who is
not a citizen or national of the United States shall not be deemed available
for work under subsection (a)(3) of this section unless the individual is in
satisfactory immigration status under the laws administered by the United
States Department of Justice, Immigration and Nationalization Naturalization
Service."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives