Bill Text: TX SB134 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to agreements between municipalities and counties and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB134 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB134-Introduced.html
| 89R2445 MP-D | ||
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 134 | |
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| relating to agreements between municipalities and counties and | ||
| United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce | ||
| federal immigration law. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 370.010 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 370.010. IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS; | ||
| INJUNCTION; DENIAL OF STATE GRANT FUNDS. (a) The governing body of | ||
| each municipality and the commissioners court of each county shall | ||
| request and, as offered, enter into a written agreement with United | ||
| States Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Section 287(g), | ||
| Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1357), to | ||
| authorize officers and employees of the municipality or county to | ||
| enforce federal immigration law. | ||
| (b) An agreement entered into under this section must | ||
| include the scope, duration, and limitations of the authority. | ||
| (c) The attorney general may bring an action against a | ||
| municipality or county that fails to comply with Subsection (a) in a | ||
| district court in Travis County for appropriate injunctive relief. | ||
| (d) The attorney general may recover reasonable expenses | ||
| incurred in obtaining relief under Subsection (c), including court | ||
| costs, reasonable attorney's fees, investigative costs, witness | ||
| fees, and deposition costs. | ||
| (e) A municipality or county may not receive state grant | ||
| funds, and state grant funds for the municipality or county shall be | ||
| denied, for the state fiscal year following the year in which a | ||
| final judicial determination in an action brought under Subsection | ||
| (c) is made that the municipality or county has failed to comply | ||
| with Subsection (a). | ||
| (f) The comptroller shall adopt rules to implement | ||
| Subsection (e) uniformly among the state agencies from which state | ||
| grant funds are distributed to a municipality or county. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the governing body of each municipality and the | ||
| commissioners court of each county shall comply with Section | ||
| 370.010, Local Government Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
