Bill Text: TX HB2564 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to addressing the needs of homeless youth.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2564 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2564-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2564 |
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relating to addressing the needs of homeless youth. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2306.0721(c), Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) The plan must include: | ||
(1) an estimate and analysis of the size and the | ||
different housing needs of the following populations in each | ||
uniform state service region: | ||
(A) individuals and families of moderate, low, | ||
very low, and extremely low income; | ||
(B) individuals with special needs; | ||
(C) homeless individuals; | ||
(D) veterans; | ||
(E) farmworkers; | ||
(F) youth who are aging out of foster care; [ |
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(G) homeless youth, as defined by Section | ||
2306.1101, and other individuals older than 18 years of age and | ||
younger than 25 years of age who are homeless; and | ||
(H) elderly individuals; | ||
(2) a proposal to use all available housing resources | ||
to address the housing needs of the populations described by | ||
Subdivision (1) by establishing funding levels for all | ||
housing-related programs; | ||
(3) an estimate of the number of federally assisted | ||
housing units available for individuals and families of low and | ||
very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform | ||
state service region; | ||
(4) a description of state programs that govern the | ||
use of all available housing resources; | ||
(5) a resource allocation plan that targets all | ||
available housing resources to individuals and families of low and | ||
very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform | ||
state service region; | ||
(6) a description of the department's efforts to | ||
monitor and analyze the unused or underused federal resources of | ||
other state agencies for housing-related services and services for | ||
homeless individuals and the department's recommendations to | ||
ensure the full use by the state of all available federal resources | ||
for those services in each uniform state service region; | ||
(7) strategies to provide housing for individuals and | ||
families with special needs in each uniform state service region; | ||
(8) a description of the department's efforts to | ||
encourage in each uniform state service region the construction of | ||
housing units that incorporate energy efficient construction and | ||
appliances; | ||
(9) an estimate and analysis of the housing supply in | ||
each uniform state service region; | ||
(10) an inventory of all publicly and, where possible, | ||
privately funded housing resources, including public housing | ||
authorities, housing finance corporations, community housing | ||
development organizations, and community action agencies; | ||
(11) strategies for meeting rural housing needs; | ||
(12) a biennial action plan for colonias that: | ||
(A) addresses current policy goals for colonia | ||
programs, strategies to meet the policy goals, and the projected | ||
outcomes with respect to the policy goals; and | ||
(B) includes information on the demand for | ||
contract-for-deed conversions, services from self-help centers, | ||
consumer education, and other colonia resident services in counties | ||
some part of which is within 150 miles of the international border | ||
of this state; | ||
(13) a summary of public comments received at a | ||
hearing under this chapter or from another source that concern the | ||
demand for colonia resident services described by Subdivision (12); | ||
and | ||
(13-a) information regarding foreclosures of | ||
residential property in this state, including the number and | ||
geographic location of those foreclosures. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2306.905(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(b) In accomplishing the council's duties under this | ||
section, the [ |
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seek program or policy assistance from the Texas Homeless Network | ||
or any other organization in this state that has a network of | ||
providers with expertise in assisting homeless youth [ |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2564 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2564 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |