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  STATE  OF        RHODE  ISLAND
  IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2026
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  AN ACT
 RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL
  CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS
  Introduced By: Representatives Giraldo, Alzate, Morales, Felix, Batista, Kazarian,
  Stewart, Potter, Cruz, and Sanchez
  Date Introduced: January 30, 2026
  Referred To: House Judiciary
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
1SECTION 1. Title 42 of the General Laws entitled "STATE AFFAIRS AND
2 GOVERNMENT" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following chapter:
3CHAPTER 169
4DETENTION FOR FEDERAL CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS
542-169-1. Short title.
6This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Detention for Federal Civil
7 Immigration Violations”.
842-169-2. 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
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, 2026.
442-169-3. Severability.
5If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this chapter shall be adjudged 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.
10SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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  EXPLANATION
  BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
  OF
  AN ACT
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- DETENTION FOR FEDERAL
  CIVIL IMMIGRATION VIOLATIONS
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1This 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.
5This act would take effect upon passage.
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