Bill Text: TX HB3756 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of affordable housing as a qualifying project for public-private partnerships.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Left pending in committee [HB3756 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3756-Introduced.html
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| By: Coleman | H.B. No. 3756 | |
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| relating to the inclusion of affordable housing as a qualifying | ||
| project for public-private partnerships. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2267.001(10), Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (10) "Qualifying project" means: | ||
| (A) any ferry, mass transit facility, vehicle | ||
| parking facility, port facility, power generation facility, fuel | ||
| supply facility, oil or gas pipeline, water supply facility, public | ||
| work, waste treatment facility, hospital, school, medical or | ||
| nursing care facility, recreational facility, affordable housing, | ||
| public building, technology facility, or other similar facility | ||
| currently available or to be made available to a governmental | ||
| entity for public use, including any structure, parking area, | ||
| appurtenance, and other property required to operate the structure | ||
| or facility and any technology infrastructure installed in the | ||
| structure or facility that is essential to the project's purpose; | ||
| or | ||
| (B) any improvements necessary or desirable to | ||
| real property owned by a governmental entity. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 2267.002(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The legislature finds that: | ||
| (1) there is a public need for timely acquisition, | ||
| design, construction, improvement, renovation, expansion, | ||
| equipping, maintenance, operation, implementation, and | ||
| installation of education facilities, affordable housing, | ||
| technology and other public infrastructure, and government | ||
| facilities in this state that serve a public need and purpose; | ||
| (2) the public need may not be wholly satisfied by | ||
| existing methods of procurement in which qualifying projects are | ||
| acquired, designed, constructed, improved, renovated, expanded, | ||
| equipped, maintained, operated, implemented, or installed; | ||
| (3) there are inadequate resources to develop new | ||
| education facilities, affordable housing, technology and other | ||
| public infrastructure, and government facilities for the benefit of | ||
| the citizens of this state, and there is demonstrated evidence that | ||
| partnerships between public entities and private entities or other | ||
| persons can meet these needs by improving the schedule for | ||
| delivery, lowering the cost, and providing other benefits to the | ||
| public; | ||
| (4) financial incentives exist under state and federal | ||
| tax provisions that encourage public entities to enter into | ||
| partnerships with private entities or other persons to develop | ||
| qualifying projects; and | ||
| (5) authorizing private entities or other persons to | ||
| develop or operate one or more qualifying projects may serve the | ||
| public safety, benefit, and welfare by making the projects | ||
| available to the public in a more timely or less costly fashion. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 2267.001(10), Government Code, as | ||
| amended by this Act, applies only to a qualifying project for which | ||
| an agreement is entered into on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
