By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 991
       73R6643 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of a county to use funds for the
    1-3  construction, preservation, or financing of low-income and
    1-4  moderate-income housing.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  (a)  A commissioners court may impose a fee not
    1-7  to exceed $10 on all documents relating to real estate transfers,
    1-8  building permits, and deeds and plats filed or recorded with the
    1-9  county clerk.
   1-10        (b)  Fees collected under this section shall be deposited in
   1-11  a special account and shall be used for grants, loans, and other
   1-12  financial assistance for the acquisition, construction,
   1-13  preservation, or financing of low-income and moderate-income
   1-14  housing or for other housing services.
   1-15        (c)  The commissioners court by resolution shall establish
   1-16  criteria and procedures for providing housing assistance under this
   1-17  section.
   1-18        (d)  The commissioners court by resolution shall establish a
   1-19  separate administrative entity under the oversight of the
   1-20  commissioners court to administer housing assistance programs under
   1-21  this section.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.