Bill Text: TX HB3782 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to establishing the Border Security Advisory Council and the Border Protection Task Force.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Border Security [HB3782 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3782-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to establishing the Border Security Advisory Council and the Border Protection Task Force.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Referred to Border Security [HB3782 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3782-Introduced.html
88R13385 LRM-F | ||
By: Guillen | H.B. No. 3782 |
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relating to establishing the Border Security Advisory Council. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B-1, Chapter 421, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 421.0425 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 421.0425. BORDER SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL. (a) The | ||
Border Security Advisory Council is a permanent special advisory | ||
committee created to advise the governor or the governor's designee | ||
on homeland security issues impacting the security of the | ||
Texas-Mexico border and on streamlining statewide border security | ||
activities and initiatives. | ||
(b) The council is composed of: | ||
(1) the executive head of or a designee from each of | ||
the following: | ||
(A) Department of Public Safety; | ||
(B) Texas Military Department; | ||
(C) Texas Division of Emergency Management; | ||
(D) Parks and Wildlife Department; | ||
(E) Texas Department of Criminal Justice; and | ||
(F) Office of Court Administration of the Texas | ||
Judicial System; and | ||
(2) other members as determined by the governor or the | ||
governor's designee. | ||
(c) The council shall advise on: | ||
(1) coordinating agency goals and responsibilities | ||
for border security efforts; | ||
(2) developing procedures for streamlining agency | ||
decision-making; and | ||
(3) improving transparency of border security | ||
operations. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |