Bill Text: TX HB183 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the duty of a law enforcement agency to request information regarding the immigration status of an arrested person.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 9)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-11 - Considered in Calendars [HB183 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB183-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Solomons, Harper-Brown, et al. | H.B. No. 183 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 183: | |||
| By: Frullo | C.S.H.B. No. 183 | ||
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| relating to the duty of a law enforcement agency to request | ||
| information regarding the immigration status of an arrested person. | ||
| 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. INFORMATION REQUEST REGARDING ARRESTED | ||
| PERSON'S IMMIGRATION STATUS. Not later than 48 hours after a person | ||
| is arrested and before the person is released on bond, the law | ||
| enforcement agency that has custody of the person shall: | ||
| (1) request information regarding the person's | ||
| immigration status from: | ||
| (A) a peace officer or other law enforcement | ||
| officer of this state who is authorized under federal law to verify | ||
| a person's immigration status; or | ||
| (B) a federal law enforcement officer, in | ||
| accordance with 8 U.S.C. Section 1373(c); and | ||
| (2) notify United States Immigration and Customs | ||
| Enforcement that the person is in the custody of the law enforcement | ||
| agency if information received following a request under | ||
| Subdivision (1) reveals that the person: | ||
| (A) is not a citizen or national of the United | ||
| States; and | ||
| (B) is unlawfully present in the United States | ||
| according to the terms of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of | ||
| 1986 (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
