By: Madla S.B. No. 930
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to entities eligible for grants because of a reduction in
1-2 defense-related activity.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 486.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 486.003. ELIGIBILITY FOR GRANT. (a) A local
1-7 governmental entity is eligible for a grant under this chapter if
1-8 it is:
1-9 (1) a municipality or county that is an adversely
1-10 affected defense-dependent community; [or]
1-11 (2) a regional planning commission that has an
1-12 adversely affected defense-dependent community within its
1-13 boundaries;
1-14 (3) a public junior college district all or part of
1-15 which is located in an adversely affected defense-dependent
1-16 community; or
1-17 (4) a campus or extension center for education
1-18 purposes of the Texas State Technical College System located in an
1-19 adversely affected defense-dependent community.
1-20 (b) A municipality or county is an adversely affected
1-21 defense-dependent community if the department determines that:
1-22 (1) the municipality or county includes within its
1-23 boundaries a defense facility that the department of defense or
1-24 applicable military department has publicly proposed for closure or
2-1 realignment; or
2-2 (2) the municipality or county:
2-3 (A) requires assistance because of:
2-4 (i) [(A)] the proposed or actual
2-5 establishment, realignment, or closure of a defense facility;
2-6 (ii) [(B)] the cancellation or termination
2-7 of a United States Department of Defense contract or the failure of
2-8 the department of defense to proceed with an approved major weapon
2-9 system program;
2-10 (iii) [(C)] a publicly announced planned
2-11 major reduction in department of defense spending that would
2-12 directly and adversely affect the municipality or county; or
2-13 (iv) [(D)] the closure or a significant
2-14 reduction of the operations of a defense facility as the result of
2-15 a merger, acquisition, or consolidation of a defense contractor
2-16 operating the facility; and
2-17 (B) [(2) the municipality or county] is expected
2-18 to experience, during the period between the beginning of the
2-19 federal fiscal year during which an event described by Subdivision
2-20 (2)(A) [(1)] is finally approved and the date that the event is to
2-21 be substantially completed, a direct loss of:
2-22 (i) [(A)] 2,500 or more defense worker
2-23 jobs in any area of the municipality or county that is located in
2-24 an urbanized area of a metropolitan statistical area;
2-25 (ii) [(B)] 1,000 or more defense worker
2-26 jobs in any area of the municipality or county that is not located
3-1 in an urbanized area of a metropolitan statistical area; or
3-2 (iii) [(C)] defense worker jobs
3-3 representing one percent of the jobs in the municipality or county.
3-4 SECTION 2. Section 486.004, Government Code, is amended by
3-5 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
3-6 (d) The department may make a grant to an eligible local
3-7 governmental entity described by Section 486.003(a)(3) or (4)
3-8 without regard to the availability or acquisition of matching
3-9 money.
3-10 SECTION 3. Section 486.005, Government Code, is amended by
3-11 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
3-12 (c) An eligible local governmental entity described by
3-13 Section 486.003(a)(3) or (4) may use the proceeds of the grant to
3-14 purchase or lease equipment to train defense workers whose jobs
3-15 have been threatened or lost because of an event described by
3-16 Section 486.003(b)(2)(A).
3-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-23 passage, and it is so enacted.