By: Miles  S.B. No. 732
         (In the Senate - Filed January 7, 2025; February 7, 2025,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health & Human
  Services; March 31, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 3;
  March 31, 2025, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 732 By:  Cook
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to required generators or other power sources for certain
  housing developments that receive an allocation of low income
  housing tax credits.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter DD, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 2306.6741 to read as follows:
         Sec. 2306.6741.  GENERATOR OR OTHER POWER SOURCE REQUIRED.
  (a) This section applies only to a development that:
               (1)  has received an allocation of low income housing
  tax credits under this subchapter; and
               (2)  is a multifamily residential development whose
  residential units are reserved for individuals 55 years of age and
  older.
         (b)  The department shall require each development to which
  this section applies to be equipped with a generator or other power
  source capable of:
               (1)  operating each elevator in the development that
  provides the only point of access to an area of the development
  containing residential units; and
               (2)  powering a system or device capable of maintaining
  the air temperature in at least one enclosed area of the development
  between 68 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit during a power outage.
         (c)  The department may adopt rules to implement this
  section.
         SECTION 2.  (a)  In this section, "development" means a
  development to which Section 2306.6741, Government Code, as added
  by this Act, applies.
         (b)  The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
  shall ensure that each development whose construction is completed
  on or after January 1, 2026, complies with Section 2306.6741,
  Government Code, as added by this Act.
         (c)  Notwithstanding Section 2306.6741, Government Code, as
  added by this Act, a development whose construction is completed on
  or before December 31, 2025, is not required to comply with that
  section until January 1, 2030.
         (d)  Not later than March 1, 2030, the Texas Department of
  Housing and Community Affairs shall prepare and submit to the
  legislature a written report on:
               (1)  the overall number of developments in compliance
  with Section 2306.6741, Government Code, as added by this Act; and
               (2)  for any development that is not in compliance with
  that section, the reason for the noncompliance and any actions
  taken by the department to ensure compliance with that section.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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