By: West S.B. No. 578
(In the Senate - Filed December 13, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
March 24, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 24, 2025,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 578 By: Gutierrez
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to surveillance cameras for certain housing developments
that receive an allocation of low income housing tax credits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter DD, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2306.6741 to read as follows:
Sec. 2306.6741. SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS REQUIRED. (a) A
development that has received an allocation of low income housing
tax credits under this subchapter must install and maintain
operable exterior surveillance cameras at appropriate locations
throughout the development.
(b) This section does not apply to a development located in
a rural area.
SECTION 2. Section 2306.6741, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a development that receives an allocation
of low income housing tax credits from an application cycle that is
based on the 2026 qualified allocation plan or a subsequent plan
adopted by the governing board of the Texas Department of Housing
and Community Affairs. A development that receives an allocation
of low income housing tax credits from an application cycle that is
based on an earlier qualified allocation plan is governed by the law
in effect on the date the application cycle began, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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