SRC-JJJ C.S.S.B. 1112 76(R)BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research CenterC.S.S.B. 1112
76R2439 DB-DBy: Shapleigh
Intergovernmental Relations
4/15/1999
Committee Report (Substituted)


DIGEST 

Currently, funds are allocated from the federal Community Development Block
grant program on a regional basis to ensure the equitable distribution of
those funds to communities throughout the state.  The allocation of funds
in the state housing program, however, is currently left to the Texas
Department of Housing and Community Affairs (department). As a result, many
of the housing developments financed through the department are
concentrated in urban areas, leaving many smaller cities and rural areas
unfunded.  C.S.S.B. 1112 would establish the allocation of programs
maintained by the department to the state planning regions based on a
formulation of proportionale numbers of households in need of housing
assistance. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, C.S.S.B. 1112 establishes the allocation of programs
maintained by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to the
state planning regions based on population. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 2306.111, Government Code, by adding Sections
(d), (e), and (f), to require the Department of Housing and Community
Affairs (department) to allocate housing funds provided from certain state
and federal funding.  Requires the department, if it is determined that an
insufficient number of eligible applications for assistance out of
allocated funds and credits are submitted to the department from a
particular uniform state service region, to use the excess allocated funds
and credits for other set asides.  Requires the department to include in
its annual low income housing plan certain formulas and allocation targets.
Requires the department to include in its annual low income housing report
the amounts of funds and credits allocated to each uniform state service
region in the preceding year for each federal and state program affected by
certain requirements.  

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2000.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.

SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE CHANGES

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 2306.111, Local Government Code, by adding
Subsections (d), (e), and (f), to add text regarding the allocation and use
of certain funds and credits to a uniformed state service region.  Deletes
proposed  SECTION 1. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 2000.  Deletes proposed effective
date.