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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL | |
CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS | |
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Introduced By: Senators Acosta, Mack, Quezada, Bell, Kallman, Lauria, Valverde, | |
Date Introduced: February 13, 2025 | |
Referred To: Senate Judiciary | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Title 42 of the General Laws entitled "STATE AFFAIRS AND |
2 | GOVERNMENT" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following chapter: |
3 | CHAPTER 167 |
4 | DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS |
5 | 42-167-1. Short title. |
6 | This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Detention for Federal Civil |
7 | Immigration Violations”. |
8 | 42-167-2. Prohibition on agreements to detain individuals for federal civil |
9 | immigration violations. |
10 | (a) No state or municipal government official or body, or instrumentality or agency thereof, |
11 | may enter into, renew, or otherwise agree, to be a party to any contract or agreement, that is or will |
12 | be used to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations including, but not limited to, |
13 | any intergovernmental services agreements to detain individuals for federal civil immigration |
14 | violations or any lease or other agreement, that facilitates the use of real property belonging to the |
15 | public body, or instrumentality or agency thereof, to detain and relocate individuals for federal civil |
16 | immigration violations. |
17 | (b) A state or municipal governmental official or body, or instrumentality or agency |
18 | thereof, that is party to any existing agreement, that is or will be used to detain individuals for |
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1 | federal civil immigration violations, shall exercise the termination provision of the agreement as |
2 | applied to its use for detaining individuals for federal civil immigration violations no later than July |
3 | 1, 2025. |
4 | 42-167-3. Severability. |
5 | If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter shall be adjudge by any |
6 | court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, that judgment shall not |
7 | affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter, but shall be confined in its operation to |
8 | the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part directly involved in the controversy in which that |
9 | judgment shall have been rendered. |
10 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL | |
CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS | |
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1 | This act would prohibit state and municipal officials or body from entering into and |
2 | renewing any agreements that will be used to detain individuals for federal civil immigration |
3 | violations. It would also prohibit state and local leaders from leasing their public real estate for use |
4 | as an immigration detention facility. |
5 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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