Bill Text: TX SB62 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 62 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-14 - Referred to State Affairs [SB62 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB62-Engrossed.html



	By: Huffines	S.B. No. 62
	Taylor of Collin


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result
	of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the
	United States.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows:
	Sec. 403.0112. ACCOUNTING FOR COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
	(a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each
	regular legislative session, the comptroller shall issue to the
	speaker of the house of representatives, the lieutenant governor,
	the governor, and the attorney general an estimation of the
	financial costs to this state incurred during the preceding
	two-year period that resulted from the presence in this state of
	persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
	(b) The estimation must include a separate accounting for
	the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of
	state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories
	must include costs of education of, health care for, and
	incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of
	border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.