A bill that would require all businesses, no matter how many people they employ, to use E-Verify, passed the Florida House on Jan. 15.

• The Florida House passed a bill to require all businesses, regardless of size, to use the E-Verify system.
• This bill would remove the current law's requirement that only businesses with 25 or more employees must use E-Verify.
• Supporters argue the measure creates fair competition, while opponents say the system is unreliable and harms immigrant communities.

If you're a business owner in Florida and you have only one employee, you might soon have to use E-Verify too.

The Florida House of Representatives on Jan. 15 passed a bill that would remove the 25-employee threshold in current law. If the House gets its way, all businesses, no matter how many people they employ, will have to use E-Verify, the federal online system that allows employers to confirm whether new hires are legally authorized to work in the United States.

Rep. Berny Jacques, a Seminole Republican and sponsor of the bill, filed a similar bill last year, but it never had a chance in the Senate. Jacques believes his measure's chances of success are better in the 2026 legislative session.

"If this bill passes it will expose a lot of lawbreakers that are harming Floridians, harming law-abiding people who want to get into the workforce, harming law-abiding businesses," Jacques said on the House floor.

"This system, if it's applied to to all, the competition will be fair to all,"...

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