By Shapleigh                                          S.B. No. 1113
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to home ownership counseling services for low income
 1-3     homeowners and homebuyers.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 2306.095 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 2306.095.  CREDIT COUNSELING.  The department shall
 1-8     cooperate with home ownership counseling organizations that receive
 1-9     grants or other assistance from the United States Department of
1-10     Housing and Community Affairs under 12 U.S.C. Section 1701x, as
1-11     amended, to:
1-12                 (1)  identify low, very low, and extremely low income
1-13     homebuyers and homeowners who are eligible for home ownership
1-14     counseling under 12 U.S.C.  Section 1701x, as amended; and
1-15                 (2)  notify the identified homeowners and homebuyers of
1-16     their eligibility for home ownership counseling.
1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.