By Wilson                                              H.B. No. 186
       74R1859 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of the housing for the homeless fund
    1-3  within the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs;
    1-4  granting the authority to issue bonds; and the allocation of
    1-5  certain sales and use tax revenue.
    1-6        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-7        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
    1-8  amended by adding Section 2306.208 to read as follows:
    1-9        Sec. 2306.208.  HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS FUND.  (a)  The
   1-10  housing for the homeless fund is created in the state treasury.
   1-11  Money in the fund may be appropriated only to provide grants to
   1-12  municipalities and counties to construct and equip facilities for
   1-13  the homeless.
   1-14        (b)  The proceeds of bonds issued under Section 2306.3531
   1-15  shall be deposited in the housing for the homeless fund.
   1-16        (c)  A municipality or county may apply to the agency for a
   1-17  grant from proceeds from bonds issued under Section 2306.3531.
   1-18  The agency by rule shall establish procedures to apply for a grant
   1-19  under this section.
   1-20        (d)  A municipality or county may contract with a private
   1-21  nonprofit corporation, as defined by the Texas Non-Profit
   1-22  Corporation Act (Article 1396-1.01 et seq., Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-23  Statutes), to operate a facility constructed or equipped by a grant
   1-24  under this section.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  Subchapter P, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
    2-2  amended by adding Section 2306.3531 to read as follows:
    2-3        Sec. 2306.3531.  HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS BONDS.  (a)  In
    2-4  addition to issuing other bonds under Subchapter P, the department
    2-5  may issue bonds in an amount not to exceed $50 million for the
    2-6  purposes provided by Section 2306.208.
    2-7        (b)  The bonds may be issued from time to time in one or more
    2-8  series or issues.
    2-9        (c)  The bonds shall be payable as to principal and interest
   2-10  and redemption premium, if any, from money deposited in the reserve
   2-11  fund as provided by Section 151.801, Tax Code.
   2-12        (d)  The agency shall keep records of bonds issued under this
   2-13  section separate from records of other bonds the agency issues
   2-14  under this subchapter.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  Section 151.801, Tax Code, is amended by amending
   2-16  Subsections (a) and (e) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
   2-17  follows:
   2-18        (a)  Except for the amounts allocated under Subsections (b),
   2-19  <and> (c), and (e), all proceeds from the collection of the taxes
   2-20  imposed by this chapter shall be deposited to the credit of the
   2-21  general revenue fund.
   2-22        (e)  Eight-tenths of one percent of the proceeds from the
   2-23  collection of the taxes imposed by this chapter shall be deposited
   2-24  to the credit of the Texas Department of Housing and Community
   2-25  Affairs--finance division reserve fund as created in Section
   2-26  2306.207, Government Code.
   2-27        (f)  In this section:
    3-1              (1)  "Motor vehicle" means a trailer, a semitrailer, or
    3-2  a self-propelled vehicle in or by which a person or property can be
    3-3  transported upon a public highway.  "Motor vehicle" does not
    3-4  include a device moved only by human power or used exclusively on
    3-5  stationary rails or tracks, a farm machine, a farm trailer, a
    3-6  road-building machine, or a self-propelled vehicle used exclusively
    3-7  to move farm machinery, farm trailers, or road-building machinery.
    3-8              (2)  "Sporting goods" means an item of tangible
    3-9  personal property designed and sold for use in a sport or sporting
   3-10  activity, excluding apparel and footwear except that which is
   3-11  suitable only for use in a sport or sporting activity, and
   3-12  excluding board games, electronic games and similar devices,
   3-13  aircraft and powered vehicles, and replacement parts and
   3-14  accessories for any excluded item.
   3-15        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   3-16        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   3-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   3-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   3-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   3-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.