By: Gutierrez (Senate Sponsor - Uresti) H.B. No. 3447

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 16, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the establishment and functions of certain urban land bank demonstration programs.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 379C.002, Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 379C.002. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to home-rule municipalities that:

(1) have a population of 1.18 million or more; and

(2) are located predominantly in a county that has a total area of less than 1,300 [1,000] square miles.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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