By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1325
(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2015; March 18, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
Military Installations; May 4, 2015, reported adversely, with
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays
3; May 4, 2015, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1325 By: Lucio
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to grants to local governmental entities from the Texas
Military Preparedness Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 436.202, Government Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a), (b), and (c) and adding Subsection (e) to
read as follows:
(a) From money appropriated for this purpose, the
commission may make a grant to an eligible local governmental
entity to:
(1) enable the entity to match money or meet an
investment requirement necessary to receive federal assistance
provided to the local governmental entity for responding to or
recovering from an event described by Section 436.201(b);
(2) match the entity's contribution for a purpose
described by Section 436.203 at a closed or realigned defense
facility; [or]
(3) construct infrastructure and other projects
necessary to accommodate a new or expanded military mission at a
military base or to reduce the impact of an action of the United
States Department of Defense that will negatively impact a defense
facility located in or near the entity; or
(4) construct affordable single family, multifamily,
and veteran's supportive housing financed under the low income
housing tax credit program under Subchapter DD, Chapter 2306.
(b) The commission may not make a grant for an amount less
than $50,000 or an amount more than the lesser of:
(1) 50 percent of the amount of matching money or
investment that the local governmental entity is required to
provide, subject to Subsection (c);
(2) 50 percent of the local governmental entity's
investment for purposes described by Section 436.203 if federal
assistance is unavailable; or
(3) $5 [$2] million.
(c) If the local governmental entity demonstrates to the
commission that, because of a limited budget, the entity lacks the
resources necessary to provide 50 percent of the amount of matching
money or investment that the entity is required to provide, the
commission may make a grant in an amount of not more than 80 percent
of the amount of that matching money or investment requirement but
may not make a grant in an amount that exceeds $5 [$2] million.
(e) The commission may make a grant to an eligible local
governmental entity for a project described by Subsection (a)(4) in
an amount that does not exceed the lesser of 10 percent of the total
construction cost of the project or $5 million.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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