Bill Text: TX HB1203 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that certain state agencies report on border security operations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Referred to Appropriations [HB1203 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1203-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | H.B. No. 1203 |
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relating to a requirement that certain state agencies report on | ||
border security operations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 322, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Section 322.025 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 322.025. REPORT ON BORDER SECURITY OPERATIONS. (a) In | ||
this section: | ||
(1) "Border security" means the activities in a | ||
reportable county associated with deterring crimes and enforcing | ||
state laws related to: | ||
(A) an offense under Chapters 19, 20, 20A, 22, | ||
34, 36, 46, and 71, Penal Code, that is punishable as a felony of the | ||
third degree or higher; | ||
(B) an offense under Chapter 481, Health and | ||
Safety Code, that is punishable as a felony of the third degree or | ||
higher; | ||
(C) an offense under Section 31.03, Penal Code, | ||
in which the actor obtained another person's property by using | ||
actual or threatened force, violence, or fear or under the color of | ||
official right; | ||
(D) any offense that is coordinated with or | ||
related to activities or crimes that occur or are committed in the | ||
United Mexican States; or | ||
(E) any offense for which the state receives | ||
federal money to enhance law enforcement efforts relating to the | ||
offense. | ||
(2) "Reportable county" means a county: | ||
(A) adjacent to or a portion of which is located | ||
within 20 miles of an international border; | ||
(B) adjacent to two counties located on an | ||
international border with a population of more than 5,000 and less | ||
than 7,500 according to the most recent decennial census; | ||
(C) adjacent to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, | ||
as defined by Section 51.002, Transportation Code; or | ||
(D) with a population of more than 1 million. | ||
(b) The Department of Public Safety, Texas Military | ||
Department, Parks and Wildlife Department, trusteed programs | ||
within the office of the governor, Texas Department of Criminal | ||
Justice, and any other state agency designated by the board shall | ||
report to the board twice each state fiscal year of the fiscal | ||
biennium ending August 31, 2019, the following: | ||
(1) the amount of money the agency budgeted for border | ||
security and the amount of money the agency spent on border security | ||
during the reporting period in each reportable county and | ||
statewide; | ||
(2) the method of finance for budgeted and expended | ||
amounts; | ||
(3) the object of expense for budgeted and expended | ||
amounts; | ||
(4) the amount of money the agency spent on employee | ||
salaries during the reporting period for duties related to border | ||
security, including regular and overtime pay, in each reportable | ||
county and statewide; | ||
(5) the agency's performance related to border | ||
security during the reporting period in each reportable county and | ||
statewide including: | ||
(A) the arrest rates measuring the number of | ||
arrests by the agency in the state fiscal year compared to an | ||
average of the number of arrests in the immediately preceding five | ||
state fiscal years for human trafficking, illicit drug | ||
transportation or smuggling, stolen vehicles used in illicit drug | ||
transportation or smuggling, smuggling of persons, and organized | ||
crime; | ||
(B) an illicit drugs seizure rate measuring the | ||
amount and type of illicit drugs seized by the agency in the state | ||
fiscal year compared to an average of the amount and type of illicit | ||
drugs seized by the agency for the immediately preceding five | ||
state fiscal years; | ||
(C) the total number and an itemized list of | ||
illicit drug interdictions in trafficking quantities by the agency; | ||
(D) the total number and an itemized list of | ||
currency seizures connected to organized crime arrests with amounts | ||
of currency by the agency; and | ||
(E) a currency seizure rate measuring the amount | ||
of currency seized by the agency in the state fiscal year compared | ||
to an average of the amount of currency seized by the agency for the | ||
immediately preceding five state fiscal years; and | ||
(6) any other information relating to the agency's | ||
border security operations that the board may require. | ||
(c) A state agency required by Subsection (b) to report | ||
information to the board shall submit information for the first | ||
half of a state fiscal year not later than March 31 of that year and | ||
information for the second half of a state fiscal year not later | ||
than September 30 of that year. The state agency shall submit the | ||
information in the manner prescribed by the board. | ||
(d) This section expires January 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |