Bill Text: TX HB4186 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of affordable housing by certain housing authorities for youth aging out of foster care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-21 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB4186 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4186-Introduced.html
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| By: Garcia | H.B. No. 4186 | |
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| relating to the provision of affordable housing by certain housing | ||
| authorities for youth aging out of foster care. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 392, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 392.068 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 392.068. PRIORITY PLACEMENT FOR CERTAIN YOUTH AGING | ||
| OUT OF FOSTER CARE. (a) This section applies only to a housing | ||
| authority located in a municipality that contains more than 70 | ||
| percent of the population of a county with a population of 1.5 | ||
| million or more. | ||
| (b) In providing affordable housing, a housing authority to | ||
| which this section applies shall give first priority to youth aging | ||
| out of foster care who reside in the authority's area of operation. | ||
| (c) A housing authority to which this section applies that | ||
| manages a waitlist for the provision of affordable housing must | ||
| give first priority on the waitlist to youth aging out of foster | ||
| care who reside in the authority's area of operation. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
