82S10024 KLA-D
By: Riddle H.B. No. 59
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reporting by state agencies on the financial effect of
providing services to illegal immigrants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2052, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2052.004 to read as follows:
Sec. 2052.004. LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS REQUEST
SUPPORTING SCHEDULE ON FINANCIAL EFFECT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
(a) In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by
Section 2103.001.
(b) Each state agency must include with the agency's
legislative appropriations request a supporting schedule that
provides an accounting of amounts spent by the agency during the
state fiscal biennium preceding the biennium for which the
legislative appropriations request is made to directly or
indirectly provide services to persons who were not lawfully
present in the United States, subject to Subsection (e).
(c) A state agency that distributes money to a local
governmental entity, including a school district, must include in
the agency's accounting required by Subsection (b) the amounts
distributed to a local governmental entity that the entity spent
during the period described by Subsection (b) to provide services
to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States,
subject to Subsection (e).
(d) A state agency, through the agency's governing body or
chief administrative officer, as appropriate, may adopt rules
requiring local governmental entities to which the agency
distributes money to provide sufficiently detailed information to
the agency to the extent practicable that will enable the agency to
comply with the requirements of Subsection (c).
(e) A state agency that does not have available data
sufficient to provide the accounting required by Subsection (b),
or, if applicable, to include the additional amounts required by
Subsection (c), shall base the accounting and included additional
amounts on the agency's best estimates of the relevant data. In
making those estimates, the agency may use data collected or
statistics made available to the agency by sources outside the
agency, including community organizations.
(f) The Legislative Budget Board shall:
(1) compile information reported by state agencies as
required by Subsection (b) into a single report;
(2) include in the report a summary of the financial
effect of state agencies' direct and indirect provision of services
to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States; and
(3) not later than December 1 of each even-numbered
year, submit the report to the presiding officer of each standing
committee of the senate and house of representatives having primary
jurisdiction over matters relating to state finance and
appropriations from the state treasury.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
last day of the legislative session.