Bill Text: TX HB470 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain municipalities to implement a homestead land bank program.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-16 - Referred to Urban Affairs [HB470 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB470-Introduced.html

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85R3011 JG-F
By: Johnson of Dallas H.B. No. 470

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of certain municipalities to implement
a homestead land bank program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 373A.003, Local Government Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 373A.003. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. [(a)] This
chapter applies to:
(1) a municipality with a population of more than
750,000 that is located in a uniform state service region with fewer
than 550,000 occupied housing units as determined by the most
recent United States decennial census; and[.]
(2) a [(b) Subchapters A, B, C, and D apply to any]
municipality with a population of 1.18 million or more which is
located predominantly in a county that has a total area of less than
1,000 square miles and has adopted an urban land bank demonstration
program under Chapter 379C, Local Government Code.
SECTION 2. Section 373A.052, Local Government Code, is
amended by amending Subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
(a) To be designated as a district within a municipality
described by Section 373A.003(1) [373A.003(a)] under this
subchapter, an area must be composed of census tracts forming a
spatially compact area with:
(1) fewer than 75,000 residents;
(2) an overall poverty rate that is at least two times
the poverty rate for the entire municipality; and
(3) in each census tract within the area, a median
family income that is less than 80 percent of the median family
income for the entire municipality.
(b) To be designated as a district within a municipality
described by Section 373A.003(2) [373A.003(b)] under this
subchapter, an area must be composed of census tracts forming a
spatially compact area contiguous to a central business district
and with:
(1) fewer than 75,000 residents;
(2) a median family income that is less than $30,000
according to the last decennial census; and
(3) an overall poverty rate that is at least two times
the poverty rate for the entire municipality.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.