SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

 

COMMITTEE:     Border Security 

TIME & DATE:   2:00 PM or upon adjournment
Thursday, November 7, 2024 

PLACE:         E1.016 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Brian Birdwell 

 

 

SB 237         Hall | et al.
Relating to an interstate compact on border security and immigration enforcement.

SB 600         Birdwell
Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment for certain criminal offenses involving the smuggling of persons.

SB 1126        Blanco
Relating to the awarding of grants to certain entities for homeland security expenses.

SB 1209        Blanco
Relating to requiring state agencies participating in Operation Lone Star to develop and report performance measures on the agency's operations.

SB 1403        Parker | et al.
Relating to an interstate compact for border security, including building a border wall and sharing state intelligence and resources.

SB 1427        Flores
Relating to certain criminal conduct and organizations that threaten the security of this state and its residents and borders; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 1481        Creighton
Relating to the exercise of eminent domain authority by the Texas Facilities Commission to build a wall along this state's international border.

SB 1484        Creighton
Relating to a border operations training program for peace officers employed by local law enforcement agencies.

SB 1518        King
Relating to the establishment of a terrorist offender registry and to the supervision of those terrorist offenders; creating criminal offenses related to terrorism.

SB 1620        Kolkhorst
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses committed in the course of or for the purpose of unlawfully entering the United States, unlawfully bypassing certain law enforcement checkpoints, or evading an arrest or detention; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 1703        Middleton
Relating to a study on the impact of illegal immigration in this state.

SB 1709        King
Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of sedition and engaging in organized criminal activity; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 1900        Birdwell
Relating to foreign terrorist organizations, including the acquisition of title to real property by, the compilation of information regarding, certain civil actions brought against, and the prosecution of certain organized crime offenses involving a foreign terrorist organization.

SB 2217        Blanco | et al.
Relating to requiring state agencies participating in Operation Lone Star to develop and report performance measures on the agency's operations.

SB 2218        Blanco | et al.
Relating to a study on the use of fiber-optic technology for the purpose of border security.

SB 2377        Campbell
Relating to homeland security, including the creation of the Texas Homeland Security Division in the Department of Public Safety, the operations of the Homeland Security Council, the creation of a homeland security fusion center, and the duties of state agencies and local governments in preparing for, reporting, and responding to cybersecurity breaches; providing administrative penalties; creating criminal offenses.

SB 2424        Birdwell | et al.
Relating to creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from foreign nation.

SCR 23         Kolkhorst
Urging the federal government to declare foreign drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

SCR 29         Creighton
Declaring an invasion of the State of Texas by transnational cartel terrorists, urging the governor to accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border, and urging Congress to deploy military forces to combat transnational cartels.

 

 

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