By: Wilson (Senate Sponsor - King) H.B. No. 2564

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2025; May 12, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development; May 20, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 20, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the evaluation of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications.

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

SECTION 1. Section 436.205, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 436.205. [PANEL:] EVALUATION OF APPLICATION. [(a) The commission shall establish a defense economic adjustment assistance panel composed of at least three and not more than five professional full-time employees of the office of the governor appointed by the director of the commission.

[(b)] The commission [panel] shall evaluate each grant application and assign the applicant a score based on:

(1) the significance of the adverse or positive effect within the local governmental entity; and

(2) any other criteria established by the commission.

SECTION 2. Section 436.206, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 436.206. MAKING OF GRANT. [The panel shall submit its scores to the commission.] The commission shall use the scores assigned under Section 436.205 to determine whether to make a grant to an applicant. The commission may not make a grant unless the legislature has appropriated the money for the grant.

SECTION 3. Section 436.001(6), Government Code, is repealed.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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