Bill Text: TX HB1273 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the Texas Certified Retirement Community Program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1273 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1273-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Kacal, Guillen | H.B. No. 1273 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1273: | |||
| By: Workman | C.S.H.B. No. 1273 | ||
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| relating to the Texas Certified Retirement Community Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 12.040(d), (g), and (i), Agriculture | ||
| Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d) To be eligible to be a Texas certified retirement | ||
| community, a community shall: | ||
| (1) through a board or panel that serves as the | ||
| community's official program sponsor: | ||
| (A) complete a retiree desirability assessment, | ||
| as developed by the department, to include facts regarding crime | ||
| statistics, tax information, recreational opportunities, housing | ||
| availability, and other appropriate factors, including criteria | ||
| listed in Subsection (e); and | ||
| (B) work to gain the support of churches, clubs, | ||
| businesses, media, and other entities, as necessary for the success | ||
| of the program in the community; | ||
| (2) identify emergency medical services and a hospital | ||
| within a 75-mile radius of the community; and | ||
| (3) submit to the department: | ||
| (A) a [ |
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| the greater of: | ||
| (i) $5,000; or | ||
| (ii) $0.25 multiplied by the population of | ||
| the community, as determined by the most recent census; | ||
| (B) a marketing plan detailing the mission as | ||
| applied to the community, the target market, the competition, an | ||
| analysis of the community's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities | ||
| and dangers, and the strategies the community will employ to attain | ||
| the goals of the program; and | ||
| (C) a long-term plan outlining the steps the | ||
| community will undertake to maintain its desirability as a | ||
| destination for retirees, including an outline of plans to correct | ||
| any facility and service deficiencies identified in the retiree | ||
| desirability assessment required by Subdivision (1)(A). | ||
| (g) If the department finds that a community successfully | ||
| meets the requirements of a Texas certified retirement community, | ||
| not later than the 90th day after the application is approved | ||
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| assistance in the manner provided by rule to the community to help | ||
| attract retirees and tourists and improve the community's | ||
| desirability as a home for retirees[ |
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| (i) The Texas certified retirement community program | ||
| account is an account in the general revenue fund. The account is | ||
| composed of fees collected under Subsection (d). Money in the | ||
| account may be appropriated to the department only for the purposes | ||
| of this section, including the payment of administrative and | ||
| personnel costs of the department associated with administering the | ||
| program. The account is exempt from the application of Section | ||
| 403.095, Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 12.040(f), Agriculture Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 3. As soon as practicable, the Department of | ||
| Agriculture shall adopt rules for the administration of Section | ||
| 12.040, Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
