83R9617 JAM-F
 
  By: Anchia H.B. No. 1888
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the definition of an at-risk development for the
  purpose of awarding low income housing tax credits.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2306.6702(a)(5), Government Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
               (5)  "At-risk development" means:
                     (A)  a development that:
                           (i) [(A)]  has received the benefit of a
  subsidy in the form of a below-market interest rate loan, interest
  rate reduction, rental subsidy, Section 8 housing assistance
  payment, rental supplement payment, rental assistance payment, or
  equity incentive under the following federal laws, as applicable:
                                 (a) [(i)]  Sections 221(d)(3) and (5),
  National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Section 1715l);
                                 (b) [(ii)]  Section 236, National
  Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Section 1715z-1);
                                 (c) [(iii)]  Section 202, Housing Act
  of 1959 (12 U.S.C. Section 1701q);
                                 (d) [(iv)]  Section 101, Housing and
  Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. Section 1701s);
                                 (e) [(v)]  the Section 8 Additional
  Assistance Program for housing developments with HUD-Insured and
  HUD-Held Mortgages administered by the United States Department of
  Housing and Urban Development;
                                 (f) [(vi)]  the Section 8 Housing
  Assistance Program for the Disposition of HUD-Owned Projects
  administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban
  Development;
                                 (g) [(vii)]  Sections 514, 515, and
  516, Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. Sections 1484, 1485, and 1486);
  or
                                 (h) [(viii)]  Section 42, Internal
  Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 42); and
                           (ii) [(B)]  is subject to the following
  conditions:
                                 (a) [(i)]  the stipulation to maintain
  affordability in the contract granting the subsidy is nearing
  expiration; or
                                 (b) [(ii)]  the federally insured
  mortgage on the development is eligible for prepayment or is
  nearing the end of its term; or
                     (B)  a development that proposes to rehabilitate
  or reconstruct housing units that:
                           (i)  are owned by a public housing authority
  and receive assistance under Section 9 of the National Housing Act
  (12 U.S.C. Section 1706d); or
                           (ii)  received assistance under Section 9 of
  the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. Section 1706d) and:
                                 (a)  are proposed to be disposed of or
  demolished by a public housing authority; or
                                 (b)  have been disposed of or
  demolished by a public housing authority in the two-year period
  preceding the application for housing tax credits.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act in amending
  Section 2306.6702(a)(5), Government Code, applies only to an
  application for low income housing tax credits that is submitted on
  or after the effective date of this Act.  An application for low
  income housing tax credits that is submitted before the effective
  date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the
  application was submitted, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.