By Maxey H.B. No. 1210 75R2629 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to establishing a home buyer education program. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 2306.253 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 2306.253. HOME BUYER EDUCATION PROGRAM. (a) The 1-7 department shall develop and implement a statewide home buyer 1-8 education program designed to provide information and counseling to 1-9 prospective home buyers about the complexities of the home buying 1-10 process. The department shall implement the program by contracting 1-11 with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service to provide the 1-12 information and counseling on behalf of the department. 1-13 (b) The department shall develop the program in cooperation 1-14 with the extension service, the Texas Department of Human Services, 1-15 the real estate center at Texas A&M University, the Texas Workforce 1-16 Commission, and advocates of affordable housing. 1-17 (c) The department and the extension service shall make full 1-18 use of existing training and informational materials available from 1-19 sources such as the federal Department of Housing and Urban 1-20 Development and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. 1-21 (d) To pay the extension service for the service's costs 1-22 under the contract in providing information and counseling to 1-23 prospective home buyers, the department may use money available to 1-24 the department for housing purposes that the department is not 2-1 prohibited from spending on the home buyer education program, 2-2 including the amount of administrative or service fees the 2-3 department receives from the issuance or refunding of bonds that 2-4 exceeds the amount the department needs to pay its overhead costs 2-5 in administering its bond programs. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.