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1	2		By: West S.B. No. 209
2		-	(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025,
3		-	read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
4		-	April 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
5		-	Nays 0; April 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
6		-	Click here to see the committee vote
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9	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	8		AN ACT
11	9		relating to the creation of the Texas technology and innovation
12	10		program.
13	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	12		SECTION 1. Chapter 489, Government Code, is amended by
15	13		adding Subchapter G to read as follows:
16	14		SUBCHAPTER G. TEXAS TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION PROGRAM
17	15		Sec. 489.351. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter:
18	16		(1) "Federal funding program" means the small business
19	17		innovation research and small business technology transfer
20	18		programs established by 15 U.S.C. Section 638.
21	19		(2) "Program" means the Texas technology and
22	20		innovation program established under this subchapter.
23	21		Sec. 489.352. ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAM.
24	22		The office shall establish and administer the Texas technology and
25	23		innovation program to foster job creation and economic development
26	24		in this state by matching or supplementing money received by a
27	25		business entity through the federal funding program.
28	26		Sec. 489.353. ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to receive money
29	27		under the program, a business entity must:
30	28		(1) meet at least one of the following conditions:
31	29		(A) be organized under the laws of this state;
32	30		(B) maintain a domestic headquarters in this
33	31		state;
34	32		(C) maintain at least one manufacturing facility
35	33		in this state; or
36	34		(D) have more than half of the entity's employees
37	35		residing in this state;
38	36		(2) meet all requirements to receive money under the
39	37		federal funding program;
40	38		(3) not receive concurrent funding from another state
41	39		program or fund that serves the same purpose as the program; and
42	40		(4) meet any additional requirements under this
43	41		subchapter for the applicable phase under which the business entity
44	42		applies to receive money.
45		-	Sec. 489.354. APPLICATION. (a) A business entity may
46		-	~~apply~~ to receive money under the program by submitting an
47		-	~~application~~ under oath to the office on a form prescribed by the
48		-	~~office. The~~ application must include:
	43	+	Sec. 489.354. APPLICATION. (a) A business entity may apply
	44	+	to receive money under the program by submitting an application
	45	+	under oath to the office on a form prescribed by the office. The
	46	+	application must include:
49	47		(1) the business entity's name;
50	48		(2) the business entity's business organization
51	49		structure;
52	50		(3) the business entity's address and any principals
53	51		listed at a different address;
54	52		(4) certification of the information required under
55	53		Section 489.353; and
56	54		(5) any other information required by the office.
57	55		(b) In addition to the requirements of Subsection (a), a
58	56		business entity must provide to the office, as applicable:
59	57		(1) for "phase zero" or a similar stage of the federal
60	58		funding program process, a notification of receipt for an
61	59		application for funding under the federal funding program;
62	60		(2) for "phase one" or a similar stage of the federal
63	61		funding program process:
64	62		(A) a notice of award to the entity from a funding
65	63		agency under the federal funding program;
66	64		(B) a final report for the applicable stage as
67	65		required by the federal funding program; and
68	66		(C) a proposal for money under the next stage of
69	67		the federal funding program; and
70	68		(3) for "phase two" or a similar stage of the federal
71	69		funding program process:
72	70		(A) a notice of award to the entity from a funding
73	71		agency under the federal funding program; and
74	72		(B) a final report for the applicable stage as
75	73		required by the federal funding program.
76	74		Sec. 489.355. AWARD OF GRANT; LIMITATIONS. (a) The office
77	75		may award a "phase zero" grant under this subchapter immediately on
78	76		fulfillment of the requirements under Section 489.354(b)(1).
79	77		(b) The office may award a "phase one" grant under this
80	78		subchapter immediately on fulfillment of the requirements under
81	79		Section 489.354(b)(2).
82	80		(c) The office may award a "phase two" grant under this
83	81		subchapter immediately on fulfillment of the requirements under
84	82		Section 489.354(b)(3).
85	83		(d) A business entity may assign a grant received under this
86	84		subchapter only with the prior written consent of the office.
87	85		(e) A business entity may not receive more than:
88	86		(1) one grant in each state fiscal year; and
89	87		(2) five grants in each phase under this section.
90	88		Sec. 489.356. FUNDING. (a) The office shall award grants
91	89		as provided by this subchapter from available money and any
92	90		additional money appropriated for purposes of this subchapter.
93	91		(b) The office may solicit and receive gifts, grants, and
94	92		donations from any source to provide additional funding for grants
95	93		awarded under this subchapter.
96	94		SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date
97	95		of this Act, the Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office
98	96		shall adopt the rules necessary to implement Subchapter G, Chapter
99	97		489, Government Code, as added by this Act.
100	98		SECTION 3. (a) Notwithstanding any other section of this
101	99		Act, in a state fiscal year, the Texas Economic Development and
102	100		Tourism Office is not required to implement a provision found in
103	101		another section of this Act that is drafted as a mandatory provision
104	102		imposing a duty on the office to take an action unless money is
105	103		specifically appropriated to the office for that fiscal year to
106	104		carry out that duty. The Texas Economic Development and Tourism
107	105		Office may implement the provision in that fiscal year to the extent
108	106		other funding is available to the office to do so.
109	107		(b) If, as authorized by Subsection (a) of this section, the
110	108		Texas Economic Development and Tourism Office does not implement
111	109		the mandatory provision in a state fiscal year, the office, in its
112	110		legislative budget request for the next state fiscal biennium,
113	111		shall certify that fact to the Legislative Budget Board and include
114	112		a written estimate of the costs of implementing the provision in
115	113		each year of that next state fiscal biennium.
116	114		SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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