By McClendon H.B. No. 3790 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to amending the Housing Authority Laws to enable employees 1-3 of a housing authority to participate in programs to benefit low 1-4 income persons on the same basis as the general public. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 392.043(b) of the Texas Local Government 1-7 Code is amended to read as follows: 1-8 Section 392.043(b). INTERESTED EMPLOYEES. An employee may 1-9 not have any dealings with a housing project for pecuniary gain 1-10 except in the performance of duties as an employee of the housing 1-11 authority and for contracts or agreements entered into after 1-12 January 1, 1970, as are available to other qualified members of the 1-13 general public for programs assisting persons of low income 1-14 (including, but not limited to, public housing, Section 8 housing, 1-15 low interest home loans, lease purchase programs, and down payment 1-16 assistance programs) to the extent approved by the board of 1-17 commissioners of the housing authority. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.