Amend CSHB 1742 (committee printing) as follows:                             
	Add the following SECTIONS and renumber subsequent SECTIONS 
accordingly:     

	SECTION ____  
§
373A.003 Local Government Code.  
APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  (a)  This chapter applies only to a 
municipality with a population of more than 650,000 that is located 
in a uniform state service region with fewer than 550,000 occupied 
housing units as determined by the most recent United States 
decennial census.
	(b)  Subchapters A, B, C and D apply to any municipality with 
a population of 1.18 million or more which is located predominantly 
in a county that has a total area of less than 1,000 square miles and 
has adopted an urban land bank demonstration program under Chapter 
379C, Local Government Code.
	SECTION ____  §373A.052.  ELIGIBILITY FOR 
DESIGNATION.  (a)  To be designated as a district within a 
municipality described by §373.003(a) under this subchapter, an 
area must be composed of census tracts forming a spatially compact 
area contiguous to a central business district and with:
		(1)  fewer than 25,000 residents;                                             
		(2)  fewer than 8,000 households;                                             
		(3)  a number of owner-occupied households that does 
not exceed 50 percent of the total households in the area;
		(4)  housing stock at least 55 percent of which was 
built at least 45 years ago;
		(5)  an unemployment rate that is greater than 10 
percent;                  
		(6)  an overall poverty rate that is at least two times 
the poverty rate for the entire municipality; and
		(7)  in each census tract within the area, a median 
family income that is less than 60 percent of the median family 
income for the entire municipality.
	(b)  To be designated as a district within a municipality 
described by §373.003(b) under this subchapter, an area must be 
composed of census tracts forming a spatially compact area 
contiguous to a central business district and with:
		(1)  fewer than 75,000 residents                                              
		(2)  a median family income that is less than $30,000 
according to the last decennial census,
		(3)  an overall poverty rate that is at least two times 
the poverty rate for the entire municipality.
	(c)  An area that is designated as a district under this 
subchapter may retain its designation as a district regardless of 
whether the area continues to meet the eligibility criteria 
provided by this section, except that an area that does not elect to 
retain its designation as permitted by this subsection must meet 
all eligibility criteria to be considered for subsequent 
redesignation as a district.
	SECTION ____  It is the intent of the legislature that the 
passage by the 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007, of another 
bill that amends Chapter 373A, Local Government Code, and the 
amendments made by this Act shall be harmonized, if possible, as 
provided by Section 311.025(b), Government Code, so that effect may 
be given to each.  If the amendments made by this Act to Chapter 
373A, Local Government Code, and the amendments made to Chapter 
373A, Local Government Code, by any other bill are irreconcilable, 
it is the intent of the legislature that this Act prevail, 
regardless of the relative dates of enactment of this Act and the 
other bill or bills, but only to the extent that any differences are 
irreconcilable.