Looks like the Department of Homeland Security’s employment verification system will live to see another day.

This November, the DHS’s E-Verify program is scheduled to end unless Congress passes legislation to continue it.

Though a House of Representatives committee had previously shot down an amendment to extend funding for E-Verify, a different extension bill was recently introduced.

The bill, which extends the program for five years, was passed by the full House at the end of July. There’s no word yet on when the Senate will vote on its version of the bill.

The vote doesn’t mean lawmakers are happy with E-Verify, though.

The law would allow Congress to change the program at any time during those five years. And many legislators (including the bill’s author, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona) have testified that the program should continue — but needs to be reformed to correct accuracy and security issues.

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