87R7313 JTS-F
By: Campos H.B. No. 2394
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a Department of Public Safety program to provide grants
to public improvement districts for services for homeless
individuals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 411.951 to read as follows:
Sec. 411.951. HOMELESS IMPACT GRANT PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. (a) The department shall establish and
administer a homeless impact grant program to provide grants for
the provision of additional security and sanitation services for
homeless individuals in areas for which a public improvement
district has been created under Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local
Government Code.
(b) A municipality or county that has created a public
improvement district may apply for and use a grant under the program
if:
(1) the district is located in a county with an
unsheltered homeless individual count that exceeds 500 according to
the most recent point-in-time homeless census; and
(2) the services for which the grant will be made are
an authorized public improvement project of the district.
SECTION 2. The Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules
necessary to implement the program under Section 411.951,
Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
2022.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.