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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result |
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of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the |
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United States. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is |
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amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 403.0112. ACCOUNTING FOR COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. |
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(a) Not later than the 30th day before the first day of each |
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regular legislative session, the comptroller shall issue to the |
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speaker of the house of representatives, the lieutenant governor, |
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the governor, and the attorney general an estimation of the |
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financial costs to this state incurred during the preceding |
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two-year period that resulted from the presence in this state of |
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persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. |
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(b) The estimation must include a separate accounting for |
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the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of |
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state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories |
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must include costs of education of, health care for, and |
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incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of |
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border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |