84R895 JJT-D
By: Huffines S.B. No. 62
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to accounting for, and recovery from the federal
government of, costs incurred by this state as a result of the
presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the United
States.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows:
Sec. 403.0112. ACCOUNTING FOR AND RECOVERY OF COSTS OF
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. (a) Not later than the 30th day before the
first day of each regular legislative session, the comptroller
shall issue to the speaker of the house of representatives, the
lieutenant governor, the governor, and the attorney general an
estimation of the financial costs to this state incurred during the
preceding two-year period that resulted from the presence in this
state of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
(b) The estimation must include a separate accounting for
the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of
state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories
must include costs of education, health care, and incarceration of
persons described by Subsection (a).
(c) Not later than the 60th day after the last day of each
regular legislative session, the comptroller and the attorney
general jointly shall make a public submission to the federal
government of an invoice requesting payment to the state of an
amount equal to the total of the costs as estimated. After the
submission, the comptroller and the attorney general shall use
every means available to collect from the federal government the
amount requested by the invoice, including by withholding any
payments of money this state owes to the federal government in a
total amount not to exceed the amount requested.
(d) The comptroller shall deposit any money received as a
result of the efforts described by Subsection (c) to the credit of
the general revenue fund.
(e) In the event the comptroller has not submitted the
estimation required by Subsection (a) by the date required by that
subsection, appropriations for operating the office of the
comptroller for the then current fiscal year are reduced by the
amount of $25,000 each subsequent day until the date the estimation
is submitted.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.