Bill Text: TX HB6 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to making an appropriation for the construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 64-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-10-26 - Referred to Finance [HB6 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB6-Engrossed.html
By: Jetton, Bonnen, DeAyala, Cain, Kitzman, | H.B. No. 6 | |
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relating to making an appropriation for the construction, | ||
operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION TO TRUSTEED PROGRAMS WITHIN THE | ||
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. (a) The amount of $1,500,000,000 is | ||
appropriated from the general revenue fund to the Trusteed Programs | ||
within the Office of the Governor for use during the two-year period | ||
beginning on the effective date of this Act for the construction, | ||
operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure. | ||
(b) The Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor | ||
may not contract with any known antisemitic, white supremacist, or | ||
other known hate group to construct, operate, or maintain border | ||
barrier infrastructure for which money is appropriated under | ||
Subsection (a) of this section. | ||
SECTION 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS. The money | ||
appropriated by this Act may not be used to: | ||
(a) acquire property through the exercise of eminent | ||
domain; | ||
(b) build a barrier along this state's international border | ||
with Mexico on property acquired through the exercise of eminent | ||
domain; | ||
(c) acquire property for a barrier that abuts the | ||
jurisdictional boundary between this state and another U.S. state; | ||
or | ||
(d) build a barrier that abuts the jurisdictional boundary | ||
between this state and another U.S. state. | ||
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 on the 91st day after the | ||
last day of the legislative session. |