Bill Text: TX HB3371 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the recovery of certain state border security expenditures from the federal government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-26 - Filed [HB3371 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3371-Introduced.html
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| By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 3371 | |
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| relating to the recovery of certain state border security | ||
| expenditures from the federal government. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 401, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 401.106 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 401.106. RECOVERY OF CERTAIN BORDER SECURITY | ||
| EXPENDITURES. (a) The governor may submit to the United States | ||
| Congress an application for reimbursement requesting payment for | ||
| expenses incurred by this state during a period specified in the | ||
| application for activities related to securing the southern | ||
| international border of the United States of America. | ||
| (b) The application for reimbursement must include the | ||
| amount of expenses incurred by this state during the period | ||
| specified in the application for which this state seeks | ||
| reimbursement and clearly provide that payment in full is due from | ||
| the federal government as soon as practicable. | ||
| (c) If the total amount requested in an application | ||
| submitted under Subsection (a) is not paid within a reasonable | ||
| period prescribed by Subsection (b), the attorney general may bring | ||
| an action in the name of the state against the appropriate agency of | ||
| the federal government to recover the amount due as stated in the | ||
| application or any part of that amount that remains unpaid. | ||
| (d) Any amount received from the federal government under | ||
| this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit | ||
| of the general revenue fund. | ||
| (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
| the initial application for reimbursement submitted by the governor | ||
| under Subsection (a) must include a request for payment of at least | ||
| the following amounts: | ||
| (1) $4,720,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium | ||
| ending August 31, 2023; and | ||
| (2) $6,540,000,000 for the state fiscal biennium | ||
| ending August 31, 2025. | ||
| (f) Subsection (e) and this subsection expire August 31, | ||
| 2026. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
