Bill Text: TX HB2893 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs of colonia self-help centers in certain counties and to the representation of those counties on the Colonia Resident Advisory Committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2893 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2893-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs of colonia self-help centers in certain counties and to the representation of those counties on the Colonia Resident Advisory Committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB2893 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2893-Introduced.html
87R9794 JAM-D | ||
By: Herrero | H.B. No. 2893 |
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relating to the establishment by the Texas Department of Housing | ||
and Community Affairs of colonia self-help centers in certain | ||
counties and to the representation of those counties on the Colonia | ||
Resident Advisory Committee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2306.582(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The department shall establish colonia self-help | ||
centers in El Paso, Hidalgo, Nueces, Starr, and Webb Counties | ||
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Counties [ |
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appropriate, the department may establish a self-help center in any | ||
other county if the county is designated as an economically | ||
distressed area under Chapter 17, Water Code, for purposes of | ||
eligibility to receive funds from the Texas Water Development | ||
Board. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2306.584(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The board shall appoint not fewer than six [ |
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persons who are residents of colonias to serve on the Colonia | ||
Resident Advisory Committee. The members of the advisory committee | ||
shall be selected from lists of candidates submitted to the board by | ||
local nonprofit organizations and the commissioners court of a | ||
county in which a self-help center is located. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |