By: Huffines S.B. No. 764
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2017; February 22, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 4; April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to accounting for 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 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 of, health care for, and
incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of
border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons.
SECTION 2. This state recognizes that it is the
responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security
of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and
finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for
this state's expenditures that are made necessary for the same
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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