Governor Ferguson signed a bill into law that requires state and local documents to use the term “noncitizen” instead of “alien” when talking about people who are not citizens of the U.S.
Ferguson signed House Bill 2632 into law on Wednesday. It requires all state, county, and city documents to stop using the word “alien”. It passed in the House and Senate along partly lines.
Opposition to the bill wrote “This proposal prioritizes virtue signaling over substantive changes and creates an administrative burden. This change misaligns state law with federal statute and is an unfunded mandate to update official documents.”
The bill does not provide funding to do so, but encourages all local governments to go back and change the language of existing documents.
