AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the allocation of funding for certain programs
 1-2     maintained by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
 1-3     to the uniform state service regions.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2306.111, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The department shall allocate housing funds provided to
 1-8     the state under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing
 1-9     Act (42 U.S.C. Section 12701 et seq.), housing trust funds
1-10     administered by the department under Sections 2306.201-2306.206,
1-11     and commitments issued under the federal low income housing tax
1-12     credit program administered by the department under Sections
1-13     2306.671-2306.678 to each uniform state service region based on a
1-14     formula developed by the department that is based on the need for
1-15     housing assistance, provided that the allocations are consistent
1-16     with applicable federal and state requirements and limitations.  If
1-17     the department determines under the formula that an insufficient
1-18     number of eligible applications for assistance out of funds or
1-19     credits allocable under this subsection are submitted to the
1-20     department from a particular uniform state service region, the
1-21     department shall use the unused funds or credits allocated to that
1-22     region for all other regions based on identified need and financial
1-23     feasibility.
1-24           (e)  The department shall include in its annual low income
 2-1     housing plan under Section 2306.0721:
 2-2                 (1)  the formula developed by the department under
 2-3     Subsection (d); and
 2-4                 (2)  the allocation targets established under the
 2-5     formula for each uniform state service region.
 2-6           (f)  The department shall include in its annual low income
 2-7     housing report under Section 2306.072 the amounts of funds and
 2-8     credits allocated to each uniform state service region in the
 2-9     preceding year for each federal and state program affected by the
2-10     requirements of Subsection (d).
2-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2000.
2-12           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1112 passed the Senate on
         April 23, 1999, by a viva-voce vote; and that the Senate concurred
         in House amendment on May 18, 1999, by a viva-voce vote.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1112 passed the House, with
         amendment, on May 11, 1999, by a non-record vote.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor