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SB 2-C: Immigration

GENERAL BILL by Gruters ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Fine

Immigration; Providing that certain persons who vote in an election are guilty of a felony; prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from issuing a driver license or identification card to unauthorized aliens and undocumented immigrants; requiring a state attorney to seek to have the court sentence certain persons as dangerous unauthorized alien offenders; creating the State Board of Immigration Enforcement within the Department of Law Enforcement; creating the State Immigration Enforcement Council within the State Board of Immigration Enforcement for a specified purpose; requiring the Attorney General to initiate judicial proceedings in the name of the state in order to enforce compliance with an immigration detainer issued by a federal immigration agency; creating the Unauthorized Alien Transport Program within the Division of Emergency Management within the Executive Office of the Governor for a specified purpose, etc. APPROPRIATION: $298,830,552

Effective Date: except as otherwise provided
 Last Action: 2/14/2025 - Chapter No. 2025-1
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Appropriations (AP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/10/2025 Senate • Filed
• Referred to Appropriations
2/11/2025 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/12/25, 10:00 am, 412 Knott Building
• Introduced
2/12/2025 Senate • Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 12 NAYS 6
• Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/13/25
2/13/2025 Senate • Read 2nd time -SJ 8
• Amendment(s) ruled out of order (885906) -SJ 9
• Amendment(s) failed (682278) -SJ 9
• Read 3rd time -SJ 9
• Passed; YEAS 27 NAYS 10 -SJ 9
2/13/2025 House • In Messages
• Substituted for HB 1C
• Read 1st time
• Read 2nd time
• Amendment 115685 Failed
• Amendment 046705 Failed
• Amendment 418549 Failed
• Amendment 881101 Failed
• Placed on 3rd reading
• Added to Third Reading Calendar
• Read 3rd time
• Passed; YEAS 85, NAYS 30
2/13/2025 Senate • Ordered enrolled
2/13/2025 • Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• Approved by Governor
2/14/2025 • Chapter No. 2025-1