By: Herrero (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 2893
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 2021;
May 14, 2021, read first time and referred to Committee on Local
Government; May 20, 2021, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 20, 2021, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the establishment by the Texas Department of Housing
and Community Affairs of colonia self-help centers in certain
counties and to the representation of those counties on the Colonia
Resident Advisory Committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2306.582(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The department shall establish colonia self-help
centers in El Paso, Hidalgo, Nueces, Starr, and Webb Counties
[counties], and in Cameron County to serve Cameron and Willacy
Counties [counties]. If the department determines it necessary and
appropriate, the department may establish a self-help center in any
other county if the county is designated as an economically
distressed area under Chapter 17, Water Code, for purposes of
eligibility to receive funds from the Texas Water Development
Board.
SECTION 2. Section 2306.584(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The board shall appoint not fewer than six [five]
persons who are residents of colonias to serve on the Colonia
Resident Advisory Committee. The members of the advisory committee
shall be selected from lists of candidates submitted to the board by
local nonprofit organizations and the commissioners court of a
county in which a self-help center is located.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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