By Dukes H.B. No. 2553 75R8779 GJH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to impact fees for certain affordable housing. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 395.016, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 1-6 (g) Notwithstanding Subsections (a)-(e) and Section 395.017, 1-7 the political subdivision may reduce or waive an impact fee for any 1-8 service unit that would qualify as affordable housing under 42 1-9 U.S.C. Section 12745, as amended, once the service unit is 1-10 constructed. If affordable housing as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 1-11 12745, as amended, is not constructed, the political subdivision 1-12 may reverse its decision to waive or reduce the impact fee, and the 1-13 political subdivision may assess an impact fee at any time during 1-14 the development approval or building process or after the building 1-15 process if an impact fee was not already assessed. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-17 applies to any assessed or unassessed impact fee that is not 1-18 collected before the effective date of this Act. An impact fee that 1-19 is collected before the effective date of this Act is governed by 1-20 the law in effect on the day it was collected, and the former law 1-21 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.