Bill Text: TX HB220 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced

Texas House Bill 220 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to an interstate compact on border security and immigration enforcement.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-09 - Filed [HB220 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB220-Introduced.html



	By: Schaefer	H.B. No. 220



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to an interstate compact on border security and
	immigration enforcement.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Title 7, Government Code, is amended by adding
	Chapter 793 to read as follows:
	Sec. 793.001. EXECUTION OF COMPACT. (a) The Governor of
	Texas is directed to coordinate and develop an Interstate Compact
	for Border Security among interested states, and to seek the
	consent of Congress for the Compact. The purpose of the Compact
	will be for compacting states to engage in joint action on matters
	including, but not limited to:
	i) the detection, apprehension, detention,
	prosecution, release, and monitoring of illegal aliens,
	international criminals, human traffickers, smugglers, and
	transnational criminal organizations;
	ii) the coordination of federal, state, and local
	immigration enforcement operations;
	iii) the construction, funding, and maintenance of
	physical barriers, including walls and fencing, to hinder illegal
	immigration, international criminals, human trafficking,
	smuggling, and transnational criminal organizations; and
	iv) the eligibility of illegal aliens to receive state
	benefits.
	(b) In support of this Interstate Compact, the Legislative
	Budget Board shall conduct a comprehensive review of state benefits
	provided to illegal aliens, which shall include a list of all state
	benefits provided to illegal aliens and their fiscal impact to
	taxpayers, and provide the report no later than 30 days after the
	report is completed to the Governor and members of the Texas
	Legislature.
	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.