Bill Text: TX HB3589 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to civil liability of a local entity or institution of higher education official directing certain immigration law violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Referred to State Affairs [HB3589 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB3589-Introduced.html

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87R278 SCL-D
By: Toth H.B. No. 3589

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to civil liability of a local entity or institution of
higher education official directing certain immigration law
violations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 752, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 752.0563 to read as follows:
Sec. 752.0563. CIVIL LIABILITY FOR OFFICIALS. (a) An
individual who holds an elective or appointive office of a local
entity or institution of higher education and who directs the
entity or the institution's campus police department to violate
Section 752.053 is liable in the official's personal capacity to a
person for the person's damages that were incurred as a result of
the violation.
(b) An official of a local entity or institution of higher
education may not assert official immunity or other forms of
immunity as a defense in an action described by Subsection (a).
SECTION 2. Section 752.0563, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after
the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.