HB1491 - Relating to agreements between counties and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law.

  89R5077 MP-D     By: Schatzline H.B. No. 1491       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to agreements between counties and United States   Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration   law.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 351, Local Government   Code, is amended by adding Section 351.905 to read as follows:           Sec.   351.905.     IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS;   INJUNCTION; DENIAL OF STATE GRANT FUNDS. (a)   The commissioners   court of each county shall request and, as offered, enter into a   written agreement with United States Immigration and Customs   Enforcement under Section 287(g), Immigration and Nationality Act   (8 U.S.C. Section 1357(g)), to authorize officers and employees of   the county to enforce federal immigration law.           (b)     An agreement entered into under this section must   include the scope, duration, and limitations of the authority.           (c)     The attorney general may bring an action against a   county that fails to comply with Subsection (a) in a district court   in Travis County for appropriate injunctive relief.           (d)     The attorney general may recover reasonable expenses   incurred in obtaining relief under Subsection (c), including court   costs, reasonable attorney's fees, investigative costs, witness   fees, and deposition costs.           (e)     A county may not receive state grant funds, and state   grant funds for the county shall be denied, for the state fiscal   year following the year in which a final judicial determination in   an action brought under Subsection (c) is made that the county has   failed to comply with Subsection (a).           (f)     The comptroller shall adopt rules to implement   Subsection (e) uniformly among the state agencies from which state   grant funds are distributed to a county.          SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date   of this Act, the commissioners court of each county shall comply   with Section 351.905, Local Government Code, as added by this Act.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.