BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 3311 |
By: Alvarado |
Urban Affairs |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
With the senior population rapidly growing in Texas, the need for affordable housing options specifically designed with elevators, grab bars, and special common spaces for supportive services for our seniors will be of the utmost importance. Interested parties have asserted that the current program for allocating low-income housing tax credits benefits family projects over developments for seniors. C.S.H.B. 3311 seeks to add parity to the application process to help ensure that seniors are provided access to affordable housing resources.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 3311 amends the Government Code to prohibit the governing board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), except as necessary to comply with the nonprofit set-aside required by certain federal law, from allocating to developments reserved for elderly persons and located in an urban subregion of a uniform state service region that contains a county with a population of more than one million a percentage of the available low income housing tax credits allocated to developments located in that subregion that is greater than the percentage that results from a formula specified by the bill, unless there are no other qualified applicants in that region. The bill prohibits TDHCA, in scoring applications for low income housing tax credits, from awarding to a proposed project for the general population a number of points for a scoring criterion that is different than the number of points awarded for that criterion to a proposed project reserved for elderly persons if the proposed projects comply with the criterion to the same degree.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2015.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 3311 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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