HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING COMMITTEE: Urban Affairs TIME & DATE: 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess Thursday, April 16, 2009 PLACE: E2.028 CHAIR: Rep. Yvonne Davis The committee will meet to take up the following bills for consideration HB 37 Corte Relating to certain municipal development programs involving areas having characteristics of blight or a slum. HB 707 Rose Relating to the award of certain municipal contracts. HB 1389 Davis, Yvonne Relating to the acquisition of real property for public use. HB 1421 Corte Relating to the use of certain court costs in a criminal case for municipal programs enhancing public safety and security. HB 2121 Olivo Relating to participation in the process for evaluating an application for a low income housing tax credit. HB 2228 Parker Relating to the timing of a referendum election to continue a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district. HB 2308 Davis, Yvonne Relating to the establishment of the Texas secure loan pilot program by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. HB 2315 Patrick Relating to authorizing municipalities to assess fees on vacant commercial buildings. HB 2350 Bohac Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to require trust accounts for certain commercial buildings; providing a criminal penalty. HB 2647 Kent | et al. Relating to the quasi-judicial enforcement of certain health and safety ordinances. HB 2792 Homer Relating to the regulation of signs by municipalities. HB 3072 Geren Relating to the transfer of municipal property to economic development corporations by certain municipalities.

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HB 3082 Thibaut Relating to the obstruction of streets by certain municipalities. HB 3162 Davis, Yvonne Relating to the development of a long-range state low income housing plan. HB 3215 Farias Relating to the establishment of a down payment assistance program for certain professional educators by the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation. HB 3240 Martinez, "Mando" Relating to a municipal program for foreclosure on and improvement of certain property, and the subsequent sale of the property as affordable housing. HB 3458 Branch Relating to the requirements for a petition proposing an amendment to the charter of a home-rule municipality. HB 3536 Davis, Yvonne Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs to determine certain demographic information regarding the occupancy of multiunit residential properties; requiring applicants for certain tax credits to provide certain demographic information. HB 3558 Phillips Relating to the authority of a local authority to require a person who violates a photographic traffic signal enforcement system to take an intersection driving safety course. HB 3682 Riddle Relating to the regulation of uninhabitable, unsafe, or abandoned structures by certain counties; providing a penalty. HB 4635 Lucio III Relating to an additional fine for the violation of a municipal rule, ordinance, or police regulation to be used to support municipal parks. Persons wishing to distribute handouts may do so by providing no fewer than 15 copies to the committee clerk when called to testify