Bill Text: TX HB429 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the definition of rural area for purposes of certain housing assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB429 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB429-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 429 |
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relating to the definition of rural area for purposes of certain | ||
housing assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing | ||
and Community Affairs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2306.004(28-a), Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(28-a) "Rural area" means an area that is located: | ||
(A) outside the boundaries of a primary | ||
metropolitan statistical area or a metropolitan statistical area; | ||
or | ||
(B) within the boundaries of a primary | ||
metropolitan statistical area or a metropolitan statistical area, | ||
if the statistical area has a population of 25,000 or less and does | ||
not share a boundary with an urban area[ |
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SECTION 2. Section 2306.111, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d-4) to read as follows: | ||
(d-4) A proposed or existing development that, before | ||
September 1, 2013, has been awarded or has received federal | ||
financial assistance provided under Section 514, 515, or 516 of the | ||
Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. Section 1484, 1485, or 1486) may | ||
apply for low income housing tax credits allocated under Subsection | ||
(d-2) or (d-3) for the uniform state service region in which the | ||
development is located regardless of whether the development is | ||
located in a rural area. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 2306.6702(12), Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act in amending | ||
Section 2306.004(28-a), Government Code, applies only to an | ||
application for financial assistance that is submitted by a housing | ||
development to the Texas Department of Housing and Community | ||
Affairs on or after September 1, 2013. An application for financial | ||
assistance that is submitted by a housing development to the | ||
department before September 1, 2013, is governed by the law in | ||
effect when the application was submitted, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 429 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 429 on May 20, 2013, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 429 on May 24, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142, | ||
Nays 3, 2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 429 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 27, Nays | ||
4; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
429 on May 26, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |