By: Patterson, Pete H.B. No. 1887 73R4413 CLG-D 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 crime and who the agency knows 1-12 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.