Bill Text: TX HB1557 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a Department of Public Safety program to provide grants to public improvement districts for services for homeless individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-03 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB1557 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1557-Introduced.html
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By: Campos | H.B. No. 1557 |
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relating to a Department of Public Safety program to provide grants | ||
to public improvement districts for services for homeless | ||
individuals. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 411, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 411.951 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 411.951. HOMELESS IMPACT GRANT PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC | ||
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. (a) The department shall establish and | ||
administer a homeless impact grant program to provide grants for | ||
the provision of additional security and sanitation services for | ||
homeless individuals in areas for which a public improvement | ||
district has been created under Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local | ||
Government Code. | ||
(b) A municipality or county that has created a public | ||
improvement district may apply for and use a grant under the program | ||
if: | ||
(1) the district is located in a county with an | ||
unsheltered homeless individual count that exceeds 500 according to | ||
the most recent point-in-time homeless census; and | ||
(2) the services for which the grant will be made are | ||
an authorized public improvement project of the district. | ||
SECTION 2. The Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules | ||
necessary to implement the program under Section 411.951, | ||
Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1, | ||
2024. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |