Honorable Brian Birdwell, Chair, Senate Committee on Border Security
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
SB2202 by Birdwell (Relating to the trafficking of a firearm to a foreign terrorist organization and to the unlawful transfer of firearms between this state and the United Mexican States; creating a criminal offense.), As Introduced
The bill would create the second degree felony offense of trafficking a firearm to a foreign terrorist organization, committed when a person intentionally or knowingly transfers, for profit or other remuneration, a firearm to an individual the person knows is either a member of a foreign terrorist organization or is an individual who intends to transfer the firearm to a member of a foreign terrorist organization.
Creating a new criminal offense may result in an increase in demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2024, there were 27 arrests, 1 referral, 1 placement on adult community supervision, 6 admissions into an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted into a juvenile state correctional institution for the related felony offense of firearm smuggling.
It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.