Bill Text: TX HB3513 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3513 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for certain nonprofit organizations to distribute diapers to families.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Human Services [HB3513 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3513-Introduced.html

	88R10200 MPF-D

	By: Howard	H.B. No. 3513



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a grant program for certain nonprofit organizations to
	distribute diapers to families.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 531.024142 to read as follows:
	Sec. 531.024142. DIAPER DISTRIBUTION GRANT PROGRAM. (a)
	In this section, "nonprofit organization" means an organization
	that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a),
	Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity
	under Section 501(c)(3) of that code.
	(b) The commission shall establish and administer a program
	through which the commission, using money appropriated or otherwise
	available for that purpose, may award a grant to nonprofit
	organizations that collect, store, and distribute diapers to
	families to enable the nonprofit organizations to develop new
	infrastructure and expand services to more families in the state.
	(c) To be considered for a grant under this section, a
	nonprofit organization must:
	(1) have experience distributing a large number of
	diapers to families in this state;
	(2) have sufficient warehouse space to store at least
	400,000 diapers;
	(3) work with at least 25 entities in the target
	community to distribute diapers;
	(4) demonstrate an ability to expand the
	organization's distribution; and
	(5) have sufficient personnel available to distribute
	at least one million diapers in this state in a year.
	(d) The commission shall establish:
	(1) grant application procedures; and
	(2) procedures for monitoring the use of a grant
	awarded under the program and ensuring compliance with any
	condition of a grant.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.