Bill Text: TX HB4443 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 4443

Bill Title: Relating to the allocation of certain federal money provided under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective immediately [HB4443 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB4443-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 4443




	AN ACT
	relating to the allocation of certain federal money provided under
	the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 2306.111, Government Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
	(j) Notwithstanding any other law, money provided to this
	state under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
	(42 U.S.C. Section 12701 et seq.) as a one-time lump sum for a
	specified use:
	(1) is not subject to the allocation requirements
	under this section or the allocation formula developed by the
	department under Section 2306.1115; and
	(2) may be allocated for the benefit of any area of
	this state in the manner specified under federal law.
	SECTION 2. 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, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 4443 was passed by the House on April
	28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 15, 2 present, not
	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
	H.B. No. 4443 on May 25, 2023, 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. 4443 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 121,
	Nays 22, 2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 4443 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 16, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
	1; 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.
	4443 on May 28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor