By Shapleigh                                          S.B. No. 1107
         76R8450 CLG-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to information on assistance under the federal Community
 1-3     Adjustment and Investment Program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter K, Chapter 481, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 481.165 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 481.165.  FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN BUSINESSES AND
 1-8     COMMUNITIES.  (a)  At least once each two-year period, the
 1-9     department shall provide written notice in English and in Spanish
1-10     to each community and business in this state that is eligible for a
1-11     loan, loan guarantee, or any other adjustment assistance under the
1-12     federal Community Adjustment and Investment Program (22 U.S.C.
1-13     Section 290m-2).
1-14           (b)  The notice of eligibility must contain:
1-15                 (1)  information on the certification process required
1-16     for assistance under the federal program, including qualification
1-17     criteria and the production of evidence necessary for an applicant
1-18     to obtain that certification; and
1-19                 (2)  a list of the telephone numbers of each of the
1-20     federal Small Business Administration and United States Department
1-21     of Agriculture district offices located in this state for use in
1-22     obtaining information on the availability of loan guarantees made
1-23     by those agencies for loans made under the federal program.
1-24           (c)  A community or business in this state that has requested
 2-1     a certification of eligibility under the federal Community
 2-2     Adjustment and Investment Program shall notify the department of
 2-3     that request.
 2-4           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-9     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10     passage, and it is so enacted.