| 1 | 1 | | 85R997 MK-D |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Huffines S.B. No. 765 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to providing the financial cost incurred by the Texas |
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| 8 | 8 | | Education Agency as a result of providing educational services to |
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| 9 | 9 | | persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 7, Education Code, is |
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| 12 | 12 | | amended by adding Section 7.032 to read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Sec. 7.032. FINANCIAL COST RELATED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. |
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| 14 | 14 | | (a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each |
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| 15 | 15 | | regular legislative session, the agency, with assistance from the |
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| 16 | 16 | | comptroller, shall certify to the speaker of the house of |
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| 17 | 17 | | representatives, the lieutenant governor, the governor, and the |
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| 18 | 18 | | attorney general the financial cost to the agency incurred during |
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| 19 | 19 | | the preceding two-year period resulting from providing educational |
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| 20 | 20 | | services to persons who are not lawfully present in the United |
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| 21 | 21 | | States. |
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| 22 | 22 | | (b) The financial cost statement must include a separate |
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| 23 | 23 | | accounting for the costs to the agency incurred in specific |
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| 24 | 24 | | categories of agency spending as determined by the comptroller. |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. This state recognizes that it is the |
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| 26 | 26 | | responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security |
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| 27 | 27 | | of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and |
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| 28 | 28 | | finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for |
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| 29 | 29 | | this state's expenditures in providing educational services to |
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| 30 | 30 | | persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. |
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| 31 | 31 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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