Bill Text: TX SB316 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exercise of eminent domain authority by the Texas Facilities Commission to build a wall along this state's international border.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB316 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB316-Introduced.html
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| By: Creighton | S.B. No. 316 | |
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| relating to the exercise of eminent domain authority by the Texas | ||
| Facilities Commission to build a wall along this state's | ||
| international border. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter L, Chapter 2166, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2166.555 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2166.555. INTERNATIONAL BORDER WALL. (a) The | ||
| commission may exercise the power of eminent domain under Section | ||
| 2166.055 to acquire an interest in real property for the | ||
| construction, extension, improvement, or development of a wall | ||
| along this state's international border for the purposes of | ||
| preventing: | ||
| (1) human trafficking; and | ||
| (2) illegal entry into the United States of: | ||
| (A) aliens without official approval of an | ||
| appropriate federal governmental authority; | ||
| (B) terrorists and instruments of terrorism; and | ||
| (C) contraband, including narcotics and other | ||
| controlled substances. | ||
| (b) The commission may exercise the power of eminent domain | ||
| under Subsection (a) to acquire: | ||
| (1) land in fee simple; or | ||
| (2) any interest less than fee simple in, on, under, or | ||
| above land, including an easement, right-of-way, or right of use of | ||
| airspace or subsurface space. | ||
| (c) The commission must adopt a resolution in accordance | ||
| with Section 2206.053 before filing a condemnation petition under | ||
| Chapter 21, Property Code, to exercise the power of eminent domain | ||
| under this section. | ||
| (d) The resolution required by Subsection (c): | ||
| (1) must include a statement that the commission's | ||
| acquisition of the property interest described in the resolution: | ||
| (A) is a public necessity; and | ||
| (B) is necessary and proper for the construction, | ||
| extension, improvement, or development of a wall along this state's | ||
| international border and is in the public interest; and | ||
| (2) is conclusive evidence of the public necessity of | ||
| the proposed acquisition and that the property interest is | ||
| necessary for public use. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
