1-1 By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1112 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; 1-6 April 16, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1112 By: Ellis 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the allocation of funding for certain programs 1-11 maintained by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs 1-12 to the uniform state service regions. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 2306.111, Government Code, is amended by 1-15 adding Subsections (d), (e), and (f) to read as follows: 1-16 (d) The department shall allocate housing funds provided to 1-17 the state under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing 1-18 Act (42 U.S.C. Section 12701 et seq.), housing trust funds 1-19 administered by the department under Sections 2306.201-2306.206, 1-20 and commitments issued under the federal low income housing tax 1-21 credit program administered by the department under Sections 1-22 2306.671-2306.678 to each uniform state service region using a 1-23 formula developed by the department that is based on the proportion 1-24 of households in each region that are in need of housing 1-25 assistance, provided that the allocations are consistent with 1-26 applicable federal and state requirements and limitations. If the 1-27 department determines under the formula that an insufficient number 1-28 of eligible applications for assistance out of funds and credits 1-29 allocable under this subsection are submitted to the department 1-30 from a particular uniform state service region, the department 1-31 shall use the excess funds and credits allocated to that region for 1-32 other set-asides. 1-33 (e) The department shall include in its annual low income 1-34 housing plan under Section 2306.0721: 1-35 (1) the formula developed by the department under 1-36 Subsection (d); and 1-37 (2) the allocation targets established under the 1-38 formula for each uniform state service region. 1-39 (f) The department shall include in its annual low income 1-40 housing report under Section 2306.072 the amounts of funds and 1-41 credits allocated to each uniform state service region in the 1-42 preceding year for each federal and state program affected by the 1-43 requirements of Subsection (d). 1-44 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2000. 1-45 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-50 * * * * *