Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 2137 amends the Government Code to prohibit the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), in allocating low income housing tax credits, from including criteria relating to educational quality of a public school campus with an attendance zone that contains a proposed development site among the threshold criteria under a qualified allocation plan and among the criteria used by TDHCA to score and rank an application for tax credits. This prohibition expires September 1, 2027. The bill requires TDHCA to conduct a study of the effects of the prohibition on the allocation of low income housing tax credits in Texas and to submit a resulting report to each standing committee of the legislature with jurisdiction over affordable housing not later than November 1, 2027.