Bill Text: TX HB59 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reporting by state agencies on the financial effect of providing services to illegal immigrants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - Referred to State Affairs [HB59 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB59-Introduced.html
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| By: Riddle | H.B. No. 59 | |
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| relating to reporting by state agencies on the financial effect of | ||
| providing services to illegal immigrants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2052, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2052.004 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2052.004. LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS REQUEST | ||
| SUPPORTING SCHEDULE ON FINANCIAL EFFECT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. | ||
| (a) In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 2103.001. | ||
| (b) Each state agency must include with the agency's | ||
| legislative appropriations request a supporting schedule that | ||
| provides an accounting of amounts spent by the agency during the | ||
| state fiscal biennium preceding the biennium for which the | ||
| legislative appropriations request is made to directly or | ||
| indirectly provide services to persons who were not lawfully | ||
| present in the United States, subject to Subsection (e). | ||
| (c) A state agency that distributes money to a local | ||
| governmental entity, including a school district, must include in | ||
| the agency's accounting required by Subsection (b) the amounts | ||
| distributed to a local governmental entity that the entity spent | ||
| during the period described by Subsection (b) to provide services | ||
| to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States, | ||
| subject to Subsection (e). | ||
| (d) A state agency, through the agency's governing body or | ||
| chief administrative officer, as appropriate, may adopt rules | ||
| requiring local governmental entities to which the agency | ||
| distributes money to provide sufficiently detailed information to | ||
| the agency to the extent practicable that will enable the agency to | ||
| comply with the requirements of Subsection (c). | ||
| (e) A state agency that does not have available data | ||
| sufficient to provide the accounting required by Subsection (b), | ||
| or, if applicable, to include the additional amounts required by | ||
| Subsection (c), shall base the accounting and included additional | ||
| amounts on the agency's best estimates of the relevant data. In | ||
| making those estimates, the agency may use data collected or | ||
| statistics made available to the agency by sources outside the | ||
| agency, including community organizations. | ||
| (f) The Legislative Budget Board shall: | ||
| (1) compile information reported by state agencies as | ||
| required by Subsection (b) into a single report; | ||
| (2) include in the report a summary of the financial | ||
| effect of state agencies' direct and indirect provision of services | ||
| to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States; and | ||
| (3) not later than December 1 of each even-numbered | ||
| year, submit the report to the presiding officer of each standing | ||
| committee of the senate and house of representatives having primary | ||
| jurisdiction over matters relating to state finance and | ||
| appropriations from the state treasury. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
| last day of the legislative session. | ||
