Tex. Gov't Code § 752.056 · Subchapter C. ENFORCEMENT OF STATE AND FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS BY LOCAL ENTITIES AND CAMPUS POLICE DEPARTMENTS
CIVIL PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A local entity or campus police department that is found by a court of law as having intentionally violated Section 752.053 is subject to a civil penalty in an amount:
(1) not less than $1,000 and not more than $1,500 for the first violation; and
(2) not less than $25,000 and not more than $25,500 for each subsequent violation.
(b) Each day of a continuing violation of Section 752.053 constitutes a separate violation for the civil penalty under this section.
(c) The court that hears an action brought under Section 752.055 against the local entity or campus police department shall determine the amount of the civil penalty under this section.
(d) A civil penalty collected under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the compensation to victims of crime fund established under Subchapter J, Chapter 56B, Code of Criminal Procedure.
(e) Sovereign immunity of this state and governmental immunity of a county and municipality to suit is waived and abolished to the extent of liability created by this section.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 4 (S.B. 4), Sec. 1.01, eff. September 1, 2017.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 469 (H.B. 4173), Sec. 2.51, eff. January 1, 2021.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.752.htm
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Code of Criminal Procedure
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