Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 3574	House Author:  Collier et al.
Effective:  See below	Senate Sponsor:  Menéndez

            House Bill 3574 amends the Government Code to authorize the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) to consider educational quality as part of the threshold criteria in evaluating an application for low income housing tax credits and to prohibit the TDHCA from considering educational quality as a scoring factor for such purposes. These provisions take effect September 1, 2017, but expire effective September 1, 2019, by which date the TDHCA is required to report the outcome of considering educational quality in threshold and not as a scoring factor in an application.