85R997 MK-D
By: Huffines S.B. No. 765
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing the financial cost incurred by the Texas
Education Agency as a result of providing educational services to
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 7, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 7.032 to read as follows:
Sec. 7.032. FINANCIAL COST RELATED TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
(a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each
regular legislative session, the agency, with assistance from the
comptroller, shall certify to the speaker of the house of
representatives, the lieutenant governor, the governor, and the
attorney general the financial cost to the agency incurred during
the preceding two-year period resulting from providing educational
services to persons who are not lawfully present in the United
States.
(b) The financial cost statement must include a separate
accounting for the costs to the agency incurred in specific
categories of agency spending as determined by the comptroller.
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 in providing educational services to
persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.