84R895 JJT-D
 
  By: Huffines S.B. No. 62
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to accounting for, and recovery from the federal
  government of, costs incurred by this state as a result of the
  presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the United
  States.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 403, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 403.0112 to read as follows:
         Sec. 403.0112.  ACCOUNTING FOR AND RECOVERY OF COSTS OF
  ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. (a) Not later than the 30th day before the
  first day of each regular legislative session, the comptroller
  shall issue to the speaker of the house of representatives, the
  lieutenant governor, the governor, and the attorney general an
  estimation of the financial costs to this state incurred during the
  preceding two-year period that resulted from the presence in this
  state of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States.
         (b)  The estimation must include a separate accounting for
  the estimated costs to the state incurred in specific categories of
  state spending as determined by the comptroller. The categories
  must include costs of education, health care, and incarceration of
  persons described by Subsection (a).
         (c)  Not later than the 60th day after the last day of each
  regular legislative session, the comptroller and the attorney
  general jointly shall make a public submission to the federal
  government of an invoice requesting payment to the state of an
  amount equal to the total of the costs as estimated. After the
  submission, the comptroller and the attorney general shall use
  every means available to collect from the federal government the
  amount requested by the invoice, including by withholding any
  payments of money this state owes to the federal government in a
  total amount not to exceed the amount requested.
         (d)  The comptroller shall deposit any money received as a
  result of the efforts described by Subsection (c) to the credit of
  the general revenue fund.
         (e)  In the event the comptroller has not submitted the
  estimation required by Subsection (a) by the date required by that
  subsection, appropriations for operating the office of the
  comptroller for the then current fiscal year are reduced by the
  amount of $25,000 each subsequent day until the date the estimation
  is submitted.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.