HB2390 - Relating to agreements between municipalities and counties and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law.

  89R2445 MP-D     By: Kerwin H.B. No. 2390       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to agreements between municipalities and 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.  Chapter 370, Local Government Code, is amended   by adding Section 370.010 to read as follows:           Sec.   370.010.     IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS;   INJUNCTION; DENIAL OF STATE GRANT FUNDS. (a)   The governing body of   each municipality and 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), to   authorize officers and employees of the municipality or 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   municipality or 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 municipality or county may not receive state grant   funds, and state grant funds for the municipality or 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 municipality or 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 municipality or county.          SECTION 2.  As soon as practicable after the effective date   of this Act, the governing body of each municipality and the   commissioners court of each county shall comply with Section   370.010, 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.