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Texas Senate Bill 4 was first introduced into the Texas Legislature on November 15, 2016. [7] It passed the Texas Senate on February 8, 2017, by a vote of 20–10. [ 8 ] The bill then went to the Texas House of Representatives , where it passed on April 27, 2017, by a vote of 94–53, with one representative voting "present."
The 85th Texas Legislature began on January 10, 2017. All members of the House and Senate were elected in the general election held on November 8, 2016. Party summary
A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether to keep in place a lower court’s block of Senate Bill 4, which makes illegally entering Texas a state crime.
Texas Senate Bill 4 (Texas S.B. 4) is a Texas state statute enacted by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by governor Greg Abbott on December 18, 2023. The bill allows state officials to arrest and deport migrants who enter the state illegally. [1] Senate Bill 4 is the subject of United States v.
Texas Senate Bill 4 authorizes state police to arrest and state judges to deport people suspected of illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico.
The Texas House of Representatives this week also approved Senate Bill 3, which allocates an additional $1.54 billion for Gov. Abbott's controversial Operation Lone Star and the construction of ...
Update: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday evening accepted an emergency appeal from the U.S. Justice Department and kept a hold on SB 4 until at least March 13, preventing the the Texas law that ...
SB 5 was filed on February 21, 2017 during the regular session of the eighty-fifth Texas Legislature. The bill passed the Texas Senate with a 21-10 vote, and it passed the Texas House of Representatives with a 92-56 vote with 1 present, not voting. [3] [4] Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill on June 1, 2017, and it became effective January 1 ...