Bill Text: TX HB1973 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the system by which an application for a low income housing tax credit is scored.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 19-9)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1973 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1973-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1973 | ||
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| relating to the system by which an application for a low income | ||
| housing tax credit is scored. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2306.6710, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: | ||
| (g) If no written statement is received for an application | ||
| under Subsection (b)(1)(J), the department shall use the maximum | ||
| number of points that could have been awarded under that paragraph | ||
| to increase the maximum number of points that may be awarded for | ||
| that application under Subsection (b)(1)(B). If awarding points | ||
| under Subsection (b)(1)(B)(iii), the department shall reallocate | ||
| the points from the scoring category provided by Subsection | ||
| (b)(1)(J) equally between the political subdivisions described by | ||
| Subsection (b)(1)(B)(iii). In awarding points transferred under | ||
| this subsection from the scoring category provided by Subsection | ||
| (b)(1)(J) to the scoring category provided by Subsection (b)(1)(B), | ||
| the department shall award: | ||
| (1) positive points for positive resolutions adopted; | ||
| (2) negative points for negative resolutions adopted; | ||
| and | ||
| (3) zero points for neutral resolutions adopted. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for low income housing tax credits that is | ||
| submitted to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs | ||
| during an application cycle that is based on the 2020 qualified | ||
| allocation plan or a subsequent plan adopted by the governing board | ||
| of the department. An application that is submitted during an | ||
| application cycle that is based on an earlier qualified allocation | ||
| plan is governed by the law in effect on the date the application | ||
| cycle began, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1973 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 90, Nays 38, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 1973 on May 23, 2019, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 1973 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 126, | ||
| Nays 14, 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1973 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays | ||
| 2; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 1973 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
