Bill Text: TX HB3811 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement by certain local governmental entities and campus police departments of state and federal laws governing immigration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Left pending in committee [HB3811 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB3811-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Martinez Fischer H.B. No. 3811
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the enforcement by certain local governmental entities
  and campus police departments of state and federal laws governing
  immigration.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 752.053(a), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (a)  local entity or campus police department may not:
               (1)  adopt
  or[,] enforce[, or endorse] a policy under
  which the entity or department prohibits or materially limits the
  enforcement of immigration laws;
               (2)  as demonstrated by pattern or practice, prohibit
  or materially limit the enforcement of immigration laws; or
               (3)  for an entity that is a law enforcement agency or
  for a department, as demonstrated by pattern or practice,
  intentionally violate Article 2.251, Code of Criminal Procedure.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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