Bill Text: TX HB59 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to reporting by state agencies on the financial effect of providing services to illegal immigrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - Referred to State Affairs [HB59 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB59-Introduced.html
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  By: Riddle H.B. No. 59
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to reporting by state agencies on the financial effect of
  providing services to illegal immigrants.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2052, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 2052.004 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2052.004.  LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS REQUEST
  SUPPORTING SCHEDULE ON FINANCIAL EFFECT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
  (a) In this section, "state agency" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 2103.001.
         (b)  Each state agency must include with the agency's
  legislative appropriations request a supporting schedule that
  provides an accounting of amounts spent by the agency during the
  state fiscal biennium preceding the biennium for which the
  legislative appropriations request is made to directly or
  indirectly provide services to persons who were not lawfully
  present in the United States, subject to Subsection (e).
         (c)  A state agency that distributes money to a local
  governmental entity, including a school district, must include in
  the agency's accounting required by Subsection (b) the amounts
  distributed to a local governmental entity that the entity spent
  during the period described by Subsection (b) to provide services
  to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States,
  subject to Subsection (e).
         (d)  A state agency, through the agency's governing body or
  chief administrative officer, as appropriate, may adopt rules
  requiring local governmental entities to which the agency
  distributes money to provide sufficiently detailed information to
  the agency to the extent practicable that will enable the agency to
  comply with the requirements of Subsection (c).
         (e)  A state agency that does not have available data
  sufficient to provide the accounting required by Subsection (b),
  or, if applicable, to include the additional amounts required by
  Subsection (c), shall base the accounting and included additional
  amounts on the agency's best estimates of the relevant data. In
  making those estimates, the agency may use data collected or
  statistics made available to the agency by sources outside the
  agency, including community organizations.
         (f)  The Legislative Budget Board shall:
               (1)  compile information reported by state agencies as
  required by Subsection (b) into a single report;
               (2)  include in the report a summary of the financial
  effect of state agencies' direct and indirect provision of services
  to persons who were not lawfully present in the United States; and
               (3)  not later than December 1 of each even-numbered
  year, submit the report to the presiding officer of each standing
  committee of the senate and house of representatives having primary
  jurisdiction over matters relating to state finance and
  appropriations from the state treasury.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on the 91st day after the
  last day of the legislative session.
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