Bill Text: TX HB1450 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to designation of a governor's liaison for federally recognized Native American tribes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-24 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1450 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1450-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: González of El Paso, White | H.B. No. 1450 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1450: | |||
| By: Giddings | C.S.H.B. No. 1450 | ||
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| relating to designation of a governor's liaison for federally | ||
| recognized Native American tribes. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the State-Tribal | ||
| Collaboration Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subtitle E, Title 4, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Chapter 471 to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 471. STATE COLLABORATION WITH NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES | ||
| Sec. 471.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
| (1) "Native American tribe" means a federally | ||
| recognized tribe, band, pueblo, or community, located wholly or | ||
| partially in this state, whose members are eligible for funding and | ||
| services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. | ||
| (2) "State agency" means an agency, department, | ||
| office, or other entity in the executive branch of state | ||
| government. | ||
| Sec. 471.002. NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE LIAISON. The governor | ||
| shall designate an employee of the governor's office or an employee | ||
| of the secretary of state's office to serve as liaison between the | ||
| Native American tribes in this state and the governor regarding | ||
| issues of mutual concern between the tribes and this state. | ||
| Sec. 471.003. NO CAUSE OF ACTION OR WAIVER OF IMMUNITY. | ||
| Nothing in this chapter creates a cause of action against a state | ||
| agency or waives state sovereign immunity or tribal immunity. | ||
| SECTION 3. Not later than October 1, 2017, the governor | ||
| shall designate a Native American tribe liaison as required by | ||
| Section 471.002, Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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, 2017. | ||
