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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to making an appropriation for the construction, |
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operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION TO TRUSTEED PROGRAMS WITHIN THE |
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. (a) The amount of $1,500,000,000 is |
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appropriated from the general revenue fund to the Trusteed Programs |
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within the Office of the Governor for use during the two-year period |
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beginning on the effective date of this Act for the construction, |
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operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure. |
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(b) The Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor |
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may not contract with any known antisemitic, white supremacist, or |
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other known hate group to construct, operate, or maintain border |
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barrier infrastructure for which money is appropriated under |
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Subsection (a) of this section. |
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SECTION 2. PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FUNDS. The money |
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appropriated by this Act may not be used to: |
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(a) acquire property through the exercise of eminent |
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domain; |
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(b) build a barrier along this state's international border |
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with Mexico on property acquired through the exercise of eminent |
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domain; |
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(c) acquire property for a barrier that abuts the |
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jurisdictional boundary between this state and another U.S. state; |
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or |
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(d) build a barrier that abuts the jurisdictional boundary |
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between this state and another U.S. state. |
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SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect |
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immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members |
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elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas |
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Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for |
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immediate effect, this Act takes effect on the 91st day after the |
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last day of the legislative session. |