Bill Text: TX HB784 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for municipal pedestrian infrastructure administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB784 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB784-Introduced.html
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| By: Gervin-Hawkins | H.B. No. 784 | |
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| relating to a grant program for municipal pedestrian infrastructure | ||
| administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community | ||
| Affairs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter K, Chapter 2306, | ||
| Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER K. HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter K, Chapter 2306, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2306.2595 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2306.2595. PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM. (a) In | ||
| this section: | ||
| (1) "Grant" means financial assistance that is awarded | ||
| in the form of money to a municipality for a specific purpose and | ||
| that is not required to be repaid. For purposes of this section, | ||
| the term includes a forgivable loan. | ||
| (2) "Grant fund" means the pedestrian infrastructure | ||
| grant fund. | ||
| (b) The department shall award grants to municipalities to | ||
| construct pedestrian infrastructure related to sidewalks, curbs, | ||
| or pedestrian lighting. The department may only award a grant under | ||
| a contract between the department and a grant recipient that | ||
| includes provisions under which the department is given sufficient | ||
| control to ensure the public purpose of protecting the safety of the | ||
| public is accomplished and the state receives the return benefit. | ||
| (c) The grant fund is a dedicated account in the general | ||
| revenue fund and consists of: | ||
| (1) appropriations of money to the grant fund by the | ||
| legislature; | ||
| (2) gifts, grants, including federal grants, and other | ||
| donations received for the grant fund; and | ||
| (3) interest earned on the investment of money in the | ||
| grant fund. | ||
| (d) The grant fund may be used by the department only to: | ||
| (1) award grants under this section; and | ||
| (2) administer the grant program under this section. | ||
| (e) Section 403.0956 does not apply to the grant fund. | ||
| (f) The department shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
