Bill Text: TX HCR40 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Urging Congress to reimburse the State of Texas for border security costs incurred under Operation Lone Star.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 45-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-27 - Co-sponsor authorized [HCR40 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HCR40-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Gerdes, et al. | H.C.R. No. 40 | |
| (Senate Sponsor - Creighton, et al.) | ||
| (In the Senate - Received from the House May 20, 2025; | ||
| May 20, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Border | ||
| Security; May 22, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 2025, sent to printer.) | ||
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| WHEREAS, Due to the lack of action by the federal government, | ||
| the State of Texas has been forced to continually appropriate funds | ||
| to secure the southern border of the United States; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In March 2021, Governor Greg Abbott launched | ||
| Operation Lone Star to address record levels of migrant crossings | ||
| and drug trafficking at the southern border; over the last three | ||
| years, Texas has invested billions of dollars into the initiative; | ||
| these funds have supported a variety of efforts, such as | ||
| implementing surveillance technologies, providing resources to | ||
| local law enforcement agencies, conducting legal and | ||
| administrative activities, and managing the public health and | ||
| humanitarian aspects of migration; and | ||
| WHEREAS, As part of Operation Lone Star, members of the Texas | ||
| National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety have been | ||
| deployed to the region to help detect and repel illegal crossings, | ||
| arrest human smugglers and cartel gang members, and stop the flow of | ||
| deadly drugs such as fentanyl into the United States; the program | ||
| has led to more than 516,300 apprehensions of illegal immigrants | ||
| and over 45,300 arrests; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Although it is the duty of the federal government to | ||
| secure the nation's borders, the State of Texas has expended | ||
| significant resources to help maintain safety and security across | ||
| the United States, and Congress should take responsibility for its | ||
| failure to address the crisis at the southern border; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to | ||
| reimburse the State of Texas for border security costs incurred | ||
| under Operation Lone Star; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record | ||
| as a memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
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