By Patterson, et al.                                  H.B. No. 1887
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the requirement of criminal justice agencies to report
    1-3  certain persons who are not citizens of the United States to the
    1-4  federal government.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is amended
    1-7  by adding Article 2.25 to read as follows:
    1-8        Art. 2.25.  REPORTING CERTAIN ALIENS TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
    1-9  A law enforcement agency or other criminal justice agency shall
   1-10  report to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
   1-11  a person who has been convicted of a felony and who the agency
   1-12  knows is not a citizen of the United States.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.