S.B. No. 3

	AN ACT
	relating to an appropriation to provide funding for the
	construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier
	infrastructure and border security operations, including funding
	for additional overtime expenses and costs due to certain increased
	law enforcement presence.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  APPROPRIATION TO TRUSTEED PROGRAMS WITHIN THE
	OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. (a) The amount of $1,540,000,000 is
	appropriated from the general revenue fund to the Trusteed Programs
	within the Office of the Governor for use during the two-year period
	beginning on the effective date of this Act for the purpose of
	providing funding for border security operations, including to
	provide grants to local governments and local law enforcement
	agencies to alleviate costs associated with an increased demand on
	local prosecutorial, judicial, and correctional resources, and the
	construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier
	infrastructure.
	(b)  Of the amount appropriated by Subsection (a) of this
	section, the Trusteed Programs within the Office of the Governor
	shall transfer $40,000,000 to the Department of Public Safety for
	border security operations, including paying for additional
	overtime expenses and costs due to an increased law enforcement
	presence to preserve public safety and security in the Colony Ridge
	development in Liberty County, Texas.
	SECTION 2.  PROHIBITIONS ON USE OF APPROPRIATED MONEY. The
	money appropriated by this Act may not be used to:
	(1)  acquire property through the exercise of eminent
	domain;
	(2)  build a barrier along this state's international
	border with Mexico on property acquired through the exercise of
	eminent domain;
	(3)  acquire property for a barrier that abuts the
	boundary between this state and another state; or
	(4)  build a barrier that abuts the boundary between
	this state and another state.
	SECTION 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE. 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 on the 91st day after the
	last day of the legislative session.
	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 3 passed the Senate on
	November 9, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 18, Nays 10; and
	that the Senate concurred in House amendments on December 1, 2023,
	by the following vote:  Yeas 18, Nays 9; passed subject to the
	provisions of Article III, Section 49a, of the Constitution of
	Texas.
	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 3 passed the House, with
	amendments, on November 14, 2023, by the following vote:  Yeas 84,
	Nays 59, one present not voting; passed subject to the provisions
	of Article III, Section 49a, of the Constitution of Texas.
	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House
	Approved:
	______________________________
	Date
	I, _____________________________,
	Comptroller of Public Accounts, do
	______________________________    hereby certify that the amounts
	Governor                appropriated in the herein
	S.B. No. 3, 88th Legislature, 4th
	Called Session, are within the
	amount estimated to be available
	in the affected fund.
	Certified ______________, 2023.
	______________________________
	Comptroller of Public Accounts