Bill Text: TX HB3718 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the possible use of certain state-owned land for border security.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-06 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB3718 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3718-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Spitzer, Metcalf | H.B. No. 3718 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3718: | |||
| By: Phillips | C.S.H.B. No. 3718 | ||
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| relating to the possible use of certain state-owned land for border | ||
| security. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. EVALUATION. The General Land Office shall | ||
| evaluate the possible use of state-owned land within 25 miles of the | ||
| Texas-Mexico border or inside the cattle fever tick permanent | ||
| quarantine line for purposes of border security. The General Land | ||
| Office shall evaluate the possible use of the land: | ||
| (1) as a staging area for law enforcement operations; | ||
| (2) for additional facilities for the Texas National | ||
| Guard; and | ||
| (3) for the physical security of the Texas-Mexico | ||
| border. | ||
| SECTION 2. REPORT. Not later than September 1, 2016, the | ||
| General Land Office shall submit a report on the results of the | ||
| evaluation and any resulting recommendations to the governor, the | ||
| lieutenant governor, and the members of the legislature. | ||
| SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 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, 2015. | ||
