Education

(5/2/2007) Makes "a foreign student visiting in Indiana under any student exchange program approved by the state board" eligible for certain state aid.

Health

(5/2/2007) Creates a "rural healthcare pilot program" to allow healthcare providers, including migrant health centers, to receive grants for program participation.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(5/8/2007) Driver's-license applicants must be U.S. citizens or documented immigrants.

Legal Services

(4/26/07) The law regulates notary publics, including prohibiting them from taking acknowledgement from a non-English speaker without having translated and read the instrument to them in their language.

Public Benefits

(5/4/07) Sets qualification requirements for immigrants for public-benefits programs and requires verification of legal residence.

Iowa

Health

(5/29/2007) Depending upon the reauthorization of children's healthcare legislation and resources allocated for this legislation, the state may expand coverage to documented immigrant children and all pregnant women deemed ineligible under current federal law.

Kansas

Employment

(4/5/2007) Excludes certain immigrant agricultural workers from the definition of employee in the Employment Security Law.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(4/20/2007) For driver's licenses, requires submission of a photo ID unless the document contains the applicant's full legal name, date of birth, address and Social Security number; requires a Social Security number to remain confidential; requires proof of lawful U.S. presence and residence in the state; requires a mandatory facial image capture; and incorporates machine-readable technology.

Miscellaneous

(5/11/2007) Declares English the official language of the state and requires all documents and instructions be prepared in English. Offices may produce documents in other languages at their discretion.

Public Benefits

(4/5/2007) The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act sets guidelines for judges to determine when a child is at risk for abduction, including whether the petitioner or respondent is undergoing a change in immigration or citizenship status that would adversely affect the respondent's ability to remain in the United States legally.

(5/11/2007) Outlines requirements and eligibility for public benefits for immigrants.

Kentucky

Employment

(5/23/2007) Non-citizens and non-U.S. or Canadian residents aren't eligible for workers'-compensation self-insurance.

Human Trafficking

(3/19/2007) Establishes the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(3/23/2007) Requires driver's-license applicants to be U.S. citizens, permanent residents or of other documented status. The law also requires agencies that are hiring telecommunicators to be U.S. citizens or documented resident immigrants.

Louisiana

Health

(7/9/2007) Requires medical attendants in licensed nursing homes to be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals or permanent U.S. residents.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(6/22/2007) Requires driver's-license applicants using foreign passports as proof of identity to provide immigration documents showing that they are authorized to be in the country for at least 180 days or 60 days for agricultural workers.

Maine

Employment

(6/5/07) Requires proof of citizenship status to receive unemployment benefits from agricultural work.

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(5/15/2007) Only state residents are eligible for driver's licenses and non-driver identification cards; nonresident students and active-duty military personnel and the spouses and children of people on active military duty can receive non-driver identification cards if they are U.S. citizens or documented immigrants; and relates to migrant workers and others who may be affected by changes in eligibility requirements.

Law Enforcement

(6/4/2007) Involves the right of federal officers with jurisdiction over immigration, customs and border-security matters to carry firearms.

Maryland

Human Trafficking

(5/8/2007) Prohibits human trafficking and using false or stolen ID.

Legal Services

(5/17/2007) Funds related to immigration legal services for the development, with Catholic Charities, of an Immigrant Service Program Facility.

Public Benefits

(3/22/07) Defines immigrants' eligibility for benefits and aid and outlines requirements for attaining those benefits.

(5/8/07) Funds immigrant programs, benefits and supplements benefits in some areas, such as healthcare, when documented immigrants are ineligible for federal benefits.

Minnesota

Education

(5/9/2007) Vetoed law that would have provided funding for educational programs and eliminated non-resident tuition at certain schools through additional funding.

Employment

(5/24/2007) Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for unemployment benefits.

Health

(5/24/2007) Requires that medical-license applicants provide a Social Security number, immigrant-registration card or tax identification number. Licensure requirements of two years' graduate study and accreditation are waived for permanent U.S. residents admitted before Oct. 1, 1991, and temporary non-immigrants who have exceptional ability in the sciences according to federal guidelines.

(5/25/2007) Requires the human-services commissioner to provide information and referrals to newly arrived immigrants and states that childcare-service grants may be awarded for programs that serve ethnic immigrant and refugee communities.

Mississippi

Employment

(4/25/2007) Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for unemployment benefits.

Missouri

ID/Driver's Licenses/Other Licenses

(7/13/2007) Requires certain professionals to be U.S. citizens or documented immigrants for eligibility for professional licensing (endowed-care cemeteries, landscape architects, chiropractor training, funeral directors and embalmers, physical therapists, professional counselors, social workers, family therapists, pharmacy interns and real-estate appraisers).