By Hill H.B. No. 2147 75R7233 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to prohibiting members of the governing board of the Texas 1-3 Department of Housing and Community Affairs from interfering with 1-4 the processing of applications for low-income housing tax credits. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 2306.057 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 2306.057. LIMITATION OF BOARD AUTHORITY IN CERTAIN 1-9 MATTERS. A board member may not contact an employee of the 1-10 department with the intent to influence the processing of an 1-11 application for a low-income housing tax credit. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.