Bill Text: TX HB2792 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to housing authorities established by municipalities and counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2792-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to housing authorities established by municipalities and counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2017-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB2792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2792-Engrossed.html
85R20901 JAM-F | ||
By: González of El Paso | H.B. No. 2792 |
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relating to housing authorities established by municipalities and | ||
counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 392.005(c) and (d), Local Government | ||
Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) An exemption under this section for a multifamily | ||
residential development which is owned by [ |
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corporation created by a housing authority under Chapter 303, owned | ||
by [ |
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similar entity created by a housing authority and which does not | ||
have at least 20 percent of its units reserved for public housing | ||
units, rent-restricted units subsidized by a housing authority, or | ||
a combination of public housing and rent-restricted units, applies | ||
only if: | ||
(1) the authority holds a public hearing, at a regular | ||
meeting of the authority's governing body, to approve the | ||
development; and | ||
(2) at least 50 percent of the units in the multifamily | ||
residential development are reserved for occupancy by individuals | ||
and families earning less than 80 percent of the area median family | ||
income. | ||
(d) For the purposes of Subsection (c), a "public housing | ||
unit": | ||
(1) is a dwelling unit for which the owner: | ||
(A) receives a public housing operating subsidy; | ||
or | ||
(B) received a public housing operating subsidy, | ||
if the dwelling unit was subsequently converted through the Rental | ||
Assistance Demonstration program administered by the United States | ||
Department of Housing and Urban Development as specified by the | ||
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2012 | ||
(Pub. L. No. 112-55) and its subsequent amendments; and | ||
(2) [ |
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are made to the landlord under the federal Section 8 Housing Choice | ||
Voucher Program unless the unit was converted under the Rental | ||
Assistance Demonstration program. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 392.0331(b), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), in appointing | ||
commissioners under Section 392.031, a municipality with a | ||
municipal housing authority composed of five commissioners shall | ||
appoint at least one commissioner to the authority who is a tenant | ||
of a public housing project over which the authority has | ||
jurisdiction or who is a recipient of housing assistance | ||
administered through the authority's housing choice voucher | ||
program. Except as provided by Subsection (b-2), in appointing | ||
commissioners under Section 392.031, a municipality with a | ||
municipal housing authority composed of seven or more commissioners | ||
shall appoint at least two commissioners to the authority who are | ||
tenants of a public housing project over which the authority has | ||
jurisdiction or who are recipients of housing assistance | ||
administered through the authority's housing choice voucher | ||
program. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |