1-1     By:  Hill, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan)            H.B. No. 1982
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Special Committee
 1-4     on Border Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the effect of a municipal annexation on a colonia's
 1-9     continued eligibility for certain assistance.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 43, Local Government Code,
1-12     is amended by adding Section 43.905 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 43.905.  EFFECT OF ANNEXATION ON COLONIAS.  (a)  In this
1-14     section, "colonia" means a geographic area:
1-15                 (1)  that has a majority population composed of
1-16     individuals and families of low income and very low income, as
1-17     defined by Section 2306.004, Government Code, and based on the
1-18     federal Office of Management and Budget poverty index, and that
1-19     meets the qualifications of an economically distressed area under
1-20     Section 17.921, Water Code; or
1-21                 (2)  that has the physical and economic characteristics
1-22     of a colonia, as determined by the Texas Department of Housing and
1-23     Community Affairs.
1-24           (b)  A colonia that is annexed by a municipality remains
1-25     eligible for five years after the effective date of the annexation
1-26     to receive any form of assistance for which the colonia would be
1-27     eligible if the annexation had not occurred.
1-28           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-29     to a colonia annexed by a municipality on or after the effective
1-30     date of this Act.  A colonia annexed by a municipality before the
1-31     effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when the
1-32     colonia was annexed, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-33     that purpose.
1-34           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-35           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-36     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-37     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-38     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-39     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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