Senate Bill No. 590 Summary

• Schools must determine student citizenship and immigration status at enrollment using birth certificates or official documentation, with parents required to notify schools within 30 days if student was born outside the U.S. or is a child of an unlawfully present alien.

• School districts must collect and compile immigration status data and submit annual reports to the state board of education, which aggregates the data by school and reports to the general assembly on numbers of citizens, lawfully present aliens, and unlawfully present aliens.

• State board of education must analyze and report on fiscal costs to the state and political subdivisions for providing education, computers, textbooks, meals, and extracurricular activities to unlawfully present alien students, and the effects on educational quality for U.S. citizen students.

• Law enforcement officers making lawful stops, detentions, or arrests must attempt to determine citizenship and immigration status when reasonable suspicion exists that a person is unlawfully present, by contacting federal government per 8 U.S.C. Section 1373(c), without independently making final determinations or considering race, color, or national origin.

• Makes willful failure to complete or carry alien registration documents a class C misdemeanor for aliens unlawfully present in the United States, with immigration status verified through federal government verification only.