Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 3311	House Author:  Alvarado
Effective:  9-1-15	Senate Sponsor:  Nichols

            House Bill 3311 amends the Government Code to prohibit the governing board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) from allocating to developments reserved for elderly persons and located in an urban subregion of a uniform state service region that contains Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, or Travis County a certain percentage of the available low income housing tax credits allocated to developments located in that subregion, unless there are no other applicants in that region. The bill additionally prohibits TDHCA, in scoring applications for low income housing tax credits, from awarding to a proposed project for the general population a number of points for a scoring criterion that is different than the number of points awarded for that criterion to a proposed project reserved for elderly persons if the proposed projects comply with the criterion to the same degree. The bill further revises provisions relating to the scoring criterion regarding the commitment of development funding by local political subdivisions.