By Shapleigh                                          S.B. No. 1112
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the allocation of programs maintained by the Texas
 1-3     Department of Housing and Community Affairs to the state planning
 1-4     regions based on population.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 2306.0021 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 2306.0021.  HOUSING ASSISTANCE ALLOCATION.  The
 1-9     department shall allocate funds for a program administered by the
1-10     housing finance division under this chapter to each geographic
1-11     state planning region established by the governor under Chapter
1-12     391, Local Government Code, using a formula developed by the
1-13     department that is based on the  proportion of households in each
1-14     region that are in need of housing assistance.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.