Bill Text: TX HB561 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain local governmental entities affected by the realignment of defense worker jobs or facilities to receive grants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB561 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB561-Introduced.html

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89R2419 LRM-F
By: Lopez of Bexar H.B. No. 561

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of certain local governmental entities
affected by the realignment of defense worker jobs or facilities to
receive grants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 436.201(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The following local governmental entities are eligible
for a grant under this subchapter:
(1) a municipality or county that is a defense
community;
(2) a regional planning commission that has a defense
community within its boundaries;
(3) a public junior college district that is wholly or
partly located in a defense community;
(4) a campus or education extension center of the
Texas State Technical College System that is located in a defense
community;
(5) a defense base development authority created under
Chapter 379B, Local Government Code; [and]
(6) a political subdivision that has the power of a
defense base development authority created under Chapter 379B,
Local Government Code; and
(7) a municipally owned utility that acts as a retail
public utility, as those terms are defined by Section 13.002, Water
Code, in a defense community.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.