Bill Text: TX HB1104 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a program to provide housing vouchers to emergency medical services personnel in certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB1104 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1104-Introduced.html
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| By: Cole | H.B. No. 1104 | |
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| relating to a program to provide housing vouchers to emergency | ||
| medical services personnel in certain counties. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2306.553(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The public purpose of the corporation is to perform | ||
| activities and services that the corporation's board of directors | ||
| determines will promote the public health, safety, and welfare | ||
| through the provision of adequate, safe, and sanitary housing | ||
| primarily for individuals and families of low, very low, and | ||
| extremely low income and for persons who are eligible for loans | ||
| under the home loan program provided by Section 2306.5621 or who are | ||
| eligible for a housing voucher under Section 2306.570. The | ||
| activities and services shall include engaging in mortgage banking | ||
| activities and lending transactions and acquiring, holding, | ||
| selling, or leasing real or personal property. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter Y, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2306.570 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2306.570. HOUSING VOUCHER PROGRAM FOR EMERGENCY | ||
| MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL. (a) In this section, "emergency | ||
| medical services personnel" has the meaning assigned by Section | ||
| 773.003, Health and Safety Code. | ||
| (b) The corporation shall, using available resources, | ||
| establish a housing voucher program in a county with a population of | ||
| more than 1 million and less than 1.5 million to provide housing | ||
| vouchers to emergency medical services personnel. | ||
| (c) The corporation's board of directors shall adopt rules: | ||
| (1) governing the program's administration; | ||
| (2) establishing eligibility criteria for a person to | ||
| receive a housing voucher under the program; | ||
| (3) establishing a mechanism to determine the amount | ||
| of a housing voucher provided under the program; and | ||
| (4) prescribing any other program requirements that | ||
| the board determines necessary. | ||
| (d) The corporation may accept gifts, grants, and donations | ||
| from any source to establish and operate the program. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
