Bill Text: TX SB583 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to lists of public real property suitable for use or to be developed for use as affordable housing by certain municipalities and counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-13 - Filed [SB583 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB583-Introduced.html
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| By: West | S.B. No. 583 | |
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| 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. | ||
