Bill Text: TX HB176 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provisions required in an interstate compact on border security.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-25 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB176 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB176-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Guillen, Morales of Maverick, et al. | H.B. No. 176 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 176: | |||
| By: Bell of Montgomery | C.S.H.B. No. 176 | ||
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| relating to the provisions required in an interstate compact on | ||
| border security. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 794.003, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 794.003. INTERSTATE COMPACT PROVISIONS. (a) The | ||
| compact authorized by this chapter must provide for joint action | ||
| among compacting states on matters that include: | ||
| (1) sharing law enforcement intelligence on illegal | ||
| activity occurring at the border with Mexico; | ||
| (2) sharing state resources in order to build a | ||
| physical barrier, a comprehensive technological surveillance | ||
| system, or both, on state land to deter or detect illegal activity | ||
| occurring at the border with Mexico; [ |
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| (3) sharing other law enforcement resources to ensure | ||
| the protection of personnel and property; | ||
| (4) to the greatest extent possible given the | ||
| resources available, ensuring the operational control of the | ||
| Texas-Mexico border; and | ||
| (5) providing mutual support for the resources, | ||
| including infrastructure, equipment, software, and personnel, that | ||
| are necessary or convenient to ensure that the purposes described | ||
| by this section are adequately supported and achieved. | ||
| (b) The compact authorized by this chapter may, at the | ||
| discretion of individual states, provide for joint action among | ||
| compacting states on the execution and enforcement of agreements or | ||
| memoranda of understanding with the United States Department of | ||
| Justice, the United States Department of Homeland Security, or any | ||
| other federal agency for the purpose of enforcing immigration laws, | ||
| including agreements with the United States Immigration and Customs | ||
| Enforcement under Section 287(g), Immigration and Nationality Act | ||
| (8 U.S.C. Section 1357(g)), or a successor federal program. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Chapter | ||
| 794, Government Code, apply only to an interstate compact entered | ||
| into under that chapter on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| An interstate compact entered into under that chapter before the | ||
| effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
| date the interstate compact was entered into, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2025. | ||
