Bill Text: TX HB3808 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to financial assistance to local governmental entities affected by the realignment of defense jobs or facilities.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-08 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB3808 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3808-Comm_Sub.html
84R17570 AAF-D | |||
By: Rodriguez of Travis | H.B. No. 3808 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3808: | |||
By: Blanco | C.S.H.B. No. 3808 |
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relating to financial assistance to local governmental entities | ||
affected by the realignment of defense jobs or facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 436.1531(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The office may provide a loan of financial assistance to | ||
a defense community for an economic development project that | ||
minimizes the negative effects of a defense base reduction on the | ||
defense community as a result of a United States Department of | ||
Defense base realignment process that occurs during 1995 [ |
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later. The loan shall be made from the Texas military value | ||
revolving loan account established under Section 436.156. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 436.1532(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The office may provide a loan of financial assistance to | ||
a defense community for an infrastructure project to accommodate | ||
new or expanded military missions assigned to a military base or | ||
defense facility located in, near, or adjacent to the defense | ||
community as a result of a United States Department of Defense base | ||
realignment process that occurs during 1995 [ |
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loan shall be made from the Texas military value revolving loan | ||
account established under Section 436.156. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 436.202(a) and (b), Government Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) From money appropriated for this purpose, the | ||
commission may make a grant to an eligible local governmental | ||
entity to: | ||
(1) enable the entity to match money or meet an | ||
investment requirement necessary to receive federal assistance | ||
provided to the local governmental entity for responding to or | ||
recovering from an event described by Section 436.201(b); | ||
(2) match the entity's contribution for a purpose | ||
described by Section 436.203 at a closed or realigned defense | ||
facility; [ |
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(3) construct infrastructure and other projects | ||
necessary to accommodate a new or expanded military mission at a | ||
military base or to reduce the impact of an action of the United | ||
States Department of Defense that will negatively impact a defense | ||
facility located in or near the entity; or | ||
(4) construct infrastructure and other projects | ||
necessary to prevent the reduction or closing of a defense | ||
facility. | ||
(b) The commission may not make a grant for an amount less | ||
than $50,000 or an amount more than the lesser of: | ||
(1) 50 percent of the amount of matching money or | ||
investment that the local governmental entity is required to | ||
provide, subject to Subsection (c); | ||
(2) 50 percent of the local governmental entity's | ||
investment for purposes described by Section 436.203 if federal | ||
assistance is unavailable; or | ||
(3) $5 [ |
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SECTION 4. Section 436.203(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(c) An eligible local governmental entity described by | ||
Section 436.201(a)(3), [ |
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grant to purchase or lease equipment to train defense workers whose | ||
jobs have been threatened or lost because of an event described by | ||
Section 436.201(b) or to train workers to support military | ||
installations or defense facilities. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |