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Amend CSHB 799 (house committee printing) as follows:
(1) On page 1, line 24, strike "and".
(2) On page 2, line 4, between "agencies" and the underlined period, insert the following:
; and
(4) the cost and impact, if any, to each agency of the presence of asylum-seeking children in this state
(3) On page 2, between lines 7 and 8, insert the following appropriately lettered subsection and reletter subsections of added Section 322.0176, Government Code, and any cross references to those subsections accordingly:
(____) In this section, "asylum-seeking children" means minors fleeing Central America who are seeking asylum in the United States and who have been released into a community in this state by:
(1) the Office of Refugee Resettlement;
(2) the United States Customs and Border Protection, pending an immigration hearing; or
(3) the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pending an immigration hearing.