Bill Text: TX HB11 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the duty of a local law enforcement agency to verify the immigration status of certain arrested persons by use of the federal Secure Communities program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - Referred to State Affairs [HB11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB11-Introduced.html
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By: Solomons | H.B. No. 11 |
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relating to the duty of a local law enforcement agency to verify the | ||
immigration status of certain arrested persons by use of the | ||
federal Secure Communities program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended by adding Article 2.252 to read as follows: | ||
Art. 2.252. VERIFICATION OF IMMIGRATION STATUS OF PERSON | ||
CHARGED WITH COMMITTING OFFENSE. (a) A local law enforcement | ||
agency that has custody of a person who has been arrested and | ||
transported to a place of detention shall verify the immigration | ||
status of the person by use of the federal Secure Communities | ||
program operated by United States Immigration and Customs | ||
Enforcement or a successor program. | ||
(b) A local law enforcement agency is not required to | ||
conduct an immigration status verification under Subsection (a) of | ||
a person who is transferred to the custody of the agency by another | ||
law enforcement agency if the transferring agency, before | ||
transferring custody of the person, conducted an immigration status | ||
verification under Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
legislative session. |