By: Huffines, Hall  S.B. No. 260
         (In the Senate - Filed November 29, 2016; January 30, 2017,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs &
  Border Security; April 11, 2017, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 3; April 11, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the abolishment of the Office of Immigration and
  Refugee Affairs and the Governor's Advisory Committee on
  Immigration and Refugees.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Chapter 752, Government Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 2.  The Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs
  and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Immigration and Refugees
  are abolished. On the effective date of this Act:
               (1)  all money other than federal money of the office is
  transferred to the Health and Human Services Commission;
               (2)  all contracts, leases, rights, obligations, and
  personal property, including records, in the custody of the office,
  other than federal contracts, leases, rights, obligations, and
  personal property, are transferred to the commission; and
               (3)  all remaining federal money, contracts, leases,
  rights, obligations, and personal property are transferred as
  directed by the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement of
  the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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