Bill Text: TX SB766 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to accounting for costs incurred by the health and human services system as a result of the presence in this state of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-22 - Referred to Finance [SB766 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB766-Introduced.html
| 85R1019 ADM-D | ||
| By: Huffines | S.B. No. 766 | |
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| relating to accounting for costs incurred by the health and human | ||
| services system as a result of the presence in this state 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 531, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 531.0255 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 531.0255. ACCOUNTING FOR COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. | ||
| (a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each regular | ||
| legislative session, the commission shall issue to the speaker of | ||
| the house of representatives, the lieutenant governor, the | ||
| governor, and the attorney general a report of the financial costs | ||
| to the health and human services system 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 report must include a separate accounting for the | ||
| costs incurred in specific categories of spending as determined by | ||
| the comptroller. | ||
| (c) On request of the commission, the comptroller shall | ||
| assist the commission in preparing the report. | ||
| SECTION 2. This state recognizes that it is the | ||
| responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security | ||
| of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and | ||
| finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for | ||
| expenditures by the Health and Human Services Commission and the | ||
| health and human services agencies, as defined by Section 531.001, | ||
| Government Code, made necessary by the presence of persons in this | ||
| state who are not lawfully present in the United States. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
