Bill Text: TX SB62 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Referred to State Affairs [SB62 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB62-Engrossed.html
By: Huffines | S.B. No. 62 | |
Taylor of Collin |
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relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result | ||
of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the | ||
United States. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 403.0112. ACCOUNTING FOR COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. | ||
(a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each | ||
regular legislative session, the comptroller shall issue to the | ||
speaker of the house of representatives, the lieutenant governor, | ||
the governor, and the attorney general an estimation of the | ||
financial costs to this state incurred during the preceding | ||
two-year period that resulted from the presence in this state of | ||
persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. | ||
(b) The estimation must include a separate accounting for | ||
the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of | ||
state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories | ||
must include costs of education of, health care for, and | ||
incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of | ||
border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |