Bill Text: TX HB74 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain financial assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in certain rural areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB74 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB74-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain financial assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs in certain rural areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB74 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB74-Comm_Sub.html
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By: González | H.B. No. 74 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 74: | |||
By: Bernal | C.S.H.B. No. 74 |
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relating to financial assistance administered by the Texas | ||
Department of Housing and Community Affairs in certain rural areas. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 2306.004(28-a) and (36), Government | ||
Code, are 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 [ |
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(i) has a population of 25,000 or less and | ||
does not share a boundary with an urban area; or | ||
(ii) is designated by the department as a | ||
rural area under Section 2306.0075. | ||
(36) "Urban area" means the area that is located | ||
within the boundaries of a primary metropolitan statistical area or | ||
a metropolitan statistical area other than an area described by | ||
Subdivision (28-a)(B) [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2306.0075 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2306.0075. DESIGNATION OF CERTAIN AREAS AS RURAL. (a) | ||
This section applies only to an area that: | ||
(1) is located within the boundaries of a primary | ||
metropolitan statistical area or a metropolitan statistical area; | ||
and | ||
(2) has a population of 25,000 or less. | ||
(b) The department shall designate a statistical area | ||
described by Subsection (a) as a rural area under Section | ||
2306.004(28-a)(B)(ii) for purposes of receiving financial | ||
assistance administered by the department under this chapter if the | ||
department receives an ordinance or order: | ||
(1) adopted by the governing body of the applicable | ||
political subdivision seeking the designation described by this | ||
subsection; and | ||
(2) stating that the statistical area is a rural area | ||
for purposes of receiving the financial assistance. | ||
(c) For purposes of Subsection (b), the governing body of a | ||
census-designated place identified by the United States Census | ||
Bureau is the commissioner's court of the county in which the place | ||
is located. | ||
(d) The department shall adopt rules ensuring that | ||
financial assistance provided to a designated rural area complies | ||
with any applicable federal requirements regarding that | ||
assistance. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |