(RALEIGH) -- An immigration bill passed in the state House, that would require companies with state contracts to closely check the immigration status of its employees, is trouble after it passed the Senate. That's according to William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.

"It would require all contractors doing business with the state to use the free and accurate E-Verify.  They wouldn't have to get rid of their current illegal immigrant workers, but they would have to stop hiring illegal aliens, and screen all new hires ... the bill also required all large employers with 25 or more employees to start using [the E-Verify] system."

At the state level, all North Carolina state agencies, offices and public universities are required to use E-Verify which is a federal Internet-based system that gives employers a way to determine the legal immigration status of potential and current employees. Provisions in the E-Verify bill were changed after it left the House. William Gheen says the bill was essentially gutted, and the Senate leadership has all but killed the measure by taking out certain key previsions.

"They left the part about companies doing business with the state having to use the system, but they changed it to only larger companies with 25 or more employees [be required to screen using E-Verify]. The part about all companies in North Carolina with 25 or more employees using the E-Verify system was completely removed from the bill.

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is calling for the removal from office of NC Senators Phil Berger, Tom Apodaca, Bob Rucho, and Harry Brown for what the group says are the senator's roles in gutting an immigration bill in order to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant workers in North Carolina.

"The provision [of the bill] that they removed, behind closed doors, is supported by approximately 81.5 percent of North Carolinians," according it Gheen. " I believe that when they communicate what they've done, directly to the Republican households in their districts, I have a lot of confidence that North Carolinians are going to eject them from office."

Gheen says the bill in its new form would mean that many North Carolinians would lose the chance to get jobs that are currently being held by illegal immigrants.