By: Huffines  S.B. No. 764
         (In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2017; February 22, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
  April 26, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 4; April 26, 2017, sent to printer.)
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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 state recognizes that it is the
  responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security
  of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and
  finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for
  this state's expenditures that are made necessary for the same
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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