| 1 | | - | By: Huffines S.B. No. 764 |
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| 2 | | - | (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2017; February 22, 2017, |
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| 3 | | - | read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; |
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| 4 | | - | April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, |
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| 5 | | - | Nays 4; April 26, 2017, sent to printer.) |
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| 6 | | - | Click here to see the committee vote |
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| 1 | + | By: Huffines, Creighton S.B. No. 764 |
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| 9 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 10 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 11 | 6 | | relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result |
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| 12 | 7 | | of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the |
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| 13 | 8 | | United States. |
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| 14 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 15 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is |
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| 16 | 11 | | amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows: |
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| 17 | 12 | | Sec. 403.0112. ACCOUNTING FOR COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. |
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| 18 | 13 | | (a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each |
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| 19 | 14 | | regular legislative session, the comptroller shall issue to the |
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| 20 | 15 | | speaker of the house of representatives, the lieutenant governor, |
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| 21 | 16 | | the governor, and the attorney general an estimation of the |
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| 22 | 17 | | financial costs to this state incurred during the preceding |
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| 23 | 18 | | two-year period that resulted from the presence in this state of |
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| 24 | 19 | | persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. |
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| 25 | 20 | | (b) The estimation must include a separate accounting for |
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| 26 | 21 | | the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of |
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| 27 | 22 | | state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories |
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| 28 | 23 | | must include costs of education of, health care for, and |
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| 29 | 24 | | incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of |
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| 30 | 25 | | border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons. |
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| 31 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This state recognizes that it is the |
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| 32 | 27 | | responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security |
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| 33 | 28 | | of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and |
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| 34 | 29 | | finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for |
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| 35 | 30 | | this state's expenditures that are made necessary for the same |
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| 36 | 31 | | purpose. |
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| 37 | 32 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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