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Sponsor seeks twice‑yearly reporting of immigration status for booked arrestees; members raise access and enforcement concerns
Summary
A floor sponsor proposed a bill to require local booking facilities to collect immigration-status information for arrested individuals and report aggregated counts twice yearly; members raised concerns about access to federal databases, staffing and potential unfunded costs for sheriffs and police.
A sponsor presented legislation to require that booking facilities verify immigration status for people processed through local jails and provide aggregate reporting twice a year. The sponsor said the change would not ask officers to determine immigration status on traffic stops but would focus on arrested and booked individuals, and cited a state prison cost of "a little over $9,000,000 a year" related to people not lawfully in the U.S.
Representative (speaker 17) told the…
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