Bill Text: VA HB1001 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Immigration laws; agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-06 - Senate: Continued to 2013 in Courts of Justice [HB1001 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2012-HB1001-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1001 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 11, 2012 A BILL to establish the responsibility of the Superintendent of State Police to enter into an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement concerning the enforcement of immigration laws. ---------- Patron-- Ramadan ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  §1. That the Superintendent of State Police or his designee shall on behalf of the Commonwealth seek to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the United States Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as authorized under 8 U.S.C. §1357(g), to permit the State Police to perform federal immigration law-enforcement functions in the Commonwealth, limited by such agreement to those immigration law-enforcement functions performed by such State Police officers following the arrest of an alien.