Bill Text: TX HB139 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of plans in the governor's homeland security strategy for the protection of this state's international border through the enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-10-04 - Filed [HB139 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB139-Introduced.html
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By: White | H.B. No. 139 |
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relating to the inclusion of plans in the governor's homeland | ||
security strategy for the protection of this state's international | ||
border through the enforcement of federal immigration laws. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 421.002, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
(b-1) The specific plans for protecting this state's | ||
international border under Subsection (b)(5) must include plans for | ||
state enforcement of federal immigration laws if an official of a | ||
federal agency charged with enforcing federal immigration laws has | ||
publicly stated that the agency is unable to enforce those laws in | ||
this state or if a determination is made that the federal agency | ||
charged with enforcing federal immigration laws is unable to | ||
enforce those laws and that failure to enforce those laws | ||
jeopardizes the security of this state. The plans must provide the | ||
specific conditions and criteria that must be met before making a | ||
determination described by this subsection and require that the | ||
determination be published in the Texas Register. In this | ||
subsection, "federal immigration laws" means federal law relating | ||
to aliens, immigrants, or immigration, including the federal | ||
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |