Bill Text: TX SB1110 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to communicable disease prevention for federal immigration detention facilities located near an international border.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-07 - Referred to Health & Human Services [SB1110 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1110-Introduced.html
86R12898 SCL-D | ||
By: Lucio | S.B. No. 1110 |
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relating to communicable disease prevention for federal | ||
immigration detention facilities located near an international | ||
border. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter F, Chapter 12, Health | ||
and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER F. [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter F, Chapter 12, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 12.075 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 12.075. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION FOR FEDERAL | ||
IMMIGRATION DETENTION FACILITY AND SURROUNDING AREA. (a) In this | ||
section, "federal immigration detention facility" means a facility | ||
that is operated by or under contract with United States | ||
Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration | ||
laws and that detains immigrants. | ||
(b) The department, in consultation and collaboration with | ||
the Office of State-Federal Relations, the secretary of state, and | ||
the attorney general, shall seek to enter into a memorandum of | ||
understanding or other agreement with the appropriate federal | ||
agencies or federal contractors operating federal immigration | ||
detention facilities located in a county along the international | ||
border with Mexico. | ||
(c) The memorandum of understanding or agreement entered | ||
into under Subsection (b) must: | ||
(1) establish appropriate protocols and procedures to | ||
prevent the spread of communicable disease; | ||
(2) require notice to a local or county health | ||
authority of a public health condition that may become a public | ||
health risk for the area surrounding a federal immigration | ||
detention facility if left untreated; and | ||
(3) authorize the department to establish a state | ||
program in collaboration with the appropriate federal agencies or | ||
contractors to mitigate the public health risks related to federal | ||
immigration detention facilities. | ||
(d) If authorized by the memorandum of understanding or | ||
agreement entered into under Subsection (b), the department may | ||
establish and operate a program to prevent the spread of | ||
communicable disease from a federal immigration detention | ||
facility. | ||
SECTION 3. 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. |