Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3869 Compare Versions

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1	1	By: Miles H.B. No. 3869
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to the appointment of commissioners of public housing
7	7	authorities.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. Section 392.031(b), Local Government Code, is
10	10	amended to read as follows:
11	11	(b) A commissioner may not be an officer or employee of the
12	12	municipality. A commissioner may be a tenant of a public project
13	13	over which the housing authority has jurisdiction or a person who is
14	14	directly assisted by a housing authority through its housing choice
15	15	voucher program.
16	16	SECTION 2. Section 392.0331(b), Local Government Code, is
17	17	amended to read as follows:
18	18	(b) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), in appointing
19	19	commissioners under Section 392.031, a municipality with a
20	20	municipal housing authority composed of five commissioners shall
21	21	appoint at least one commissioner to the authority who is a tenant
22	22	of a public housing project over which the authority has
23	23	jurisdiction. In appointing commissioners under Section 392.031, a
24	24	municipality with a with a municipal housing authority composed of
25	25	seven or more commissioners shall appoint at least two
26	26	commissioners to the authority who are tenants of a public housing
27	27	project over which the authority has jurisdiction. In appointing
28	28	commissioners under Section 392.031, a municipality with a
29	29	population over 2,000,000 with a municipal housing authority
30	30	composed of seven or more commissioners shall appoint at least two
31	31	commissioners to the authority who are directly assisted by the
32	32	housing authority, either as tenants of a public housing project
33	33	over which the authority has jurisdiction or as recipients of
34	34	housing assistance through the authority's housing choice voucher
35	35	program.
36	36	SECTION 4. Section 392.0331(g), Local Government Code, is
37	37	amended to read as follows:
38	38	(g) A commissioner appointed under this section may not
39	39	participate:
40	40	(1) in any vote or discussion concerning the
41	41	termination of the commissioner's occupancy rights in public
42	42	housing or of the commissioner's rights to housing assistance from
43	43	a housing choice voucher program or the rights of any person related
44	44	to the first degree of consanguinity to the commissioner with
45	45	respect to such person's occupancy rights in public housing or
46	46	right to receive housing assistance from a housing choice voucher
47	47	program; or
48	48	(2) in a grievance or administrative hearing in which
49	49	the commissioner or a person related in the first degree of
50	50	consanguinity to the commissioner is a party.
51	51	SECTION 5. Section 392.0331(h), Local Government Code, is
52	52	amended to read as follows:
53	53	(h) If a commissioner appointed under this section as a
54	54	tenant of a public housing project ceases to reside in a housing
55	55	unit operated by the public housing authority during the
56	56	commissioner's term, a majority of the other commissioners shall
57	57	decide whether to request that a new commissioner be appointed. A
58	58	majority of the commissioners may decide to allow the commissioner
59	59	to serve the remaining portion of the commissioner's term. If a
60	60	commissioner appointed under this section as a person receiving
61	61	direct housing assistance from a housing choice voucher program
62	62	ceases to receive such assistance, a majority of the other
63	63	commissioners shall decide whether to request that a new
64	64	commissioner be appointed. A majority of the commissioners may
65	65	decide to allow the commissioner to serve the remaining portion of
66	66	the commissioner's term.