By: West S.B. No. 583
(In the Senate - Filed December 13, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government;
March 18, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 1; March 18, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to lists of public real property suitable for use or to be
developed for use as affordable housing by certain municipalities
and counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 250, Local Government Code, is amended
by adding Section 250.014 to read as follows:
Sec. 250.014. LISTS OF PUBLIC REAL PROPERTY SUITABLE FOR
AFFORDABLE HOUSING BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES. (a) In
this section, "affordable housing" means residential property for
which monthly rents or monthly mortgage payments, including taxes,
insurance, and utilities, do not exceed 30 percent of the median
adjusted gross annual income for a household with a total annual
adjusted gross household income of less than 120 percent of the
greater of the median annual adjusted gross income:
(1) for households in this state; or
(2) for households in:
(A) the metropolitan statistical area in which
the property is located; or
(B) if the property is located outside a
metropolitan statistical area, the county in which the property is
primarily located.
(b) This section applies only to a municipality with a
population of more than 25,000 and a county with a population of
more than 50,000.
(c) Not later than March 1 of each year, each municipality
and county shall prepare an inventory list of all real property
located within its respective jurisdiction that the municipality or
county owns and determines is suitable for use or to be developed
for use as affordable housing. The list must include:
(1) the address and legal description of each property
listed; and
(2) a statement on whether the property is vacant or
improved.
(d) The governing body of each municipality and county must
review the inventory list prepared for the municipality or county
under this section at a public hearing and shall adopt a resolution
that includes the list at the conclusion of the hearing.
(e) Each municipality and county shall publish the
inventory list on:
(1) an Internet website maintained by the municipality
or county, as applicable; or
(2) a conspicuous place in the location the
municipality or county, as applicable, regularly posts notices if
the county or municipality, as applicable, does not maintain an
Internet website.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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