Bill Text: TX HB2336 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the participation by certain state and local elected officials during the process for evaluating an application for a low income housing tax credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-20 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB2336 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2336-Introduced.html
| 85R10933 JG-D | ||
| By: Dutton | H.B. No. 2336 | |
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| relating to the participation by certain state and local elected | ||
| officials during the process for evaluating an application for a | ||
| low income housing tax credit. | ||
| 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 an application is the subject of a written statement | ||
| provided under Subsection (b)(1)(J), the author of the statement | ||
| may withdraw and amend the statement before the end of the | ||
| application evaluation process provided by this section. The | ||
| department shall consider the new statement instead of the | ||
| withdrawn statement in scoring and ranking the application under | ||
| Subsection (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2306.6718, Government Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (b-1) If an elected official comments on an application | ||
| during the application evaluation process provided by Section | ||
| 2306.6710, the elected official may withdraw the comment and issue | ||
| a new comment before the end of that process. The department shall | ||
| consider the new comment instead of the withdrawn comment in | ||
| evaluating applications under Section 2306.6710. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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 2018 qualified | ||
| allocation plan or a subsequent plan adopted by the governing board | ||
| of the department under Section 2306.67022, Government Code. 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 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
