85R720 JJT-D     By: Huffines S.B. No. 764       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to accounting for 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 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 of, health care for, and   incarceration of persons described by Subsection (a) and costs of   border security and law enforcement attributable to those persons.          SECTION 2.  This state recognizes that it is the   responsibility of the federal government to maintain the security   of the national border to prevent unlawful entry of persons and   finds that the federal government should reimburse this state for   this state's expenditures that are made necessary for the same   purpose.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.