86R3232 SCL-D
By: González of El Paso H.B. No. 445
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to exceptions from the requirement for a person under the
direction or control of a local entity or campus police department
to assist or cooperate with federal immigration officers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 752.053(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(3), a local entity or
campus police department may prohibit persons who are employed by
or otherwise under the direction or control of the entity or
department from assisting or cooperating with a federal immigration
officer if the assistance or cooperation occurs:
(1) at a place of worship;
(2) on the property of a school district,
open-enrollment charter school, or private school;
(3) at an institution of higher education; or
(4) at a hospital, emergency clinic, outpatient
clinic, birthing center, ambulatory surgical center, or other
facility providing health care services.
SECTION 2. 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, 2019.