By: Huffines, Hall S.B. No. 260
(In the Senate - Filed November 29, 2016; January 30, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs &
Border Security; April 11, 2017, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 3; April 11, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the abolishment of the Office of Immigration and
Refugee Affairs and the Governor's Advisory Committee on
Immigration and Refugees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 752, Government Code, is repealed.
SECTION 2. The Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs
and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Immigration and Refugees
are abolished. On the effective date of this Act:
(1) all money other than federal money of the office is
transferred to the Health and Human Services Commission;
(2) all contracts, leases, rights, obligations, and
personal property, including records, in the custody of the office,
other than federal contracts, leases, rights, obligations, and
personal property, are transferred to the commission; and
(3) all remaining federal money, contracts, leases,
rights, obligations, and personal property are transferred as
directed by the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement of
the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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