By Shapleigh S.B. No. 1112 76R2439 DB-D 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.