By: Madla S.B. No. 477
97S0247/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to requiring courts hearing criminal cases to report
1-2 certain persons who are not citizens of the United States to the
1-3 federal government.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 2.25, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 2.25. REPORTING CERTAIN ALIENS TO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
1-8 A judge or the judge's designee shall report to the United States
1-9 Immigration and Naturalization Service a person who is not a
1-10 citizen of the United States and who has been:
1-11 (1) convicted in the judge's court of a crime;
1-12 (2) adjudicated in the judge's court as having engaged
1-13 in conduct constituting a criminal offense; or
1-14 (3) granted [has been placed on] deferred adjudication
1-15 and placed on community supervision by the judge [for a felony and
1-16 is an illegal criminal alien as defined by Section 493.015(a),
1-17 Government Code].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.