By Noriega                                            H.B. No. 3520
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to funds used by the Department of Housing and Community
 1-3     Affairs.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 2306.204, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
 1-7           (e)  The Comptroller of Public Accounts shall conduct a
 1-8     special performance audit of the Housing Trust Fund and Homebuyer
 1-9     Education program to determine the performance of all grants and
1-10     funding programs.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17     passage, and it is so enacted.