By: West	S.B. No. 759
	(In the Senate - Filed February 17, 2011; February 23, 2011,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
	Relations; March 28, 2011, reported favorably by the following
	vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 28, 2011, sent to printer.)

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the state low income housing plan and report developed
	by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 2306.072, Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  The report must include:
	(1)  a complete operating and financial statement of
	the department;
	(2)  a comprehensive statement of the activities of the
	department during the preceding year to address the needs
	identified in the state low income housing plan prepared as
	required by Section 2306.0721, including:
	(A)  a statistical and narrative analysis of the
	department's performance in addressing the housing needs of
	individuals and families of low and very low income;
	(B)  the ethnic and racial composition of
	individuals and families applying for and receiving assistance from
	each housing-related program operated by the department; [and]
	(C)  the department's progress in meeting the
	goals established in the previous housing plan, including goals
	established with respect to the populations described by Section
	2306.0721(c)(1); and
	(D)  recommendations on how to improve the
	coordination of department services to the populations described by
	Section 2306.0721(c)(1);
	(3)  an explanation of the efforts made by the
	department to ensure the participation of individuals of low income
	and their community-based institutions in department programs that
	affect them;
	(4)  a statement of the evidence that the department
	has made an affirmative effort to ensure the involvement of
	individuals of low income and their community-based institutions in
	the allocation of funds and the planning process;
	(5)  a statistical analysis, delineated according to
	each ethnic and racial group served by the department, that
	indicates the progress made by the department in implementing the
	state low income housing plan in each of the uniform state service
	regions;
	(6)  an analysis, based on information provided by the
	fair housing sponsor reports required under Section 2306.0724 and
	other available data, of fair housing opportunities in each housing
	development that receives financial assistance from the department
	that includes the following information for each housing
	development that contains 20 or more living units:
	(A)  the street address and municipality or county
	in which the property is located;
	(B)  the telephone number of the property
	management or leasing agent;
	(C)  the total number of units, reported by
	bedroom size;
	(D)  the total number of units, reported by
	bedroom size, designed for individuals who are physically
	challenged or who have special needs and the number of these
	individuals served annually;
	(E)  the rent for each type of rental unit,
	reported by bedroom size;
	(F)  the race or ethnic makeup of each project;
	(G)  the number of units occupied by individuals
	receiving government-supported housing assistance and the type of
	assistance received;
	(H)  the number of units occupied by individuals
	and families of extremely low income, very low income, low income,
	moderate income, and other levels of income;
	(I)  a statement as to whether the department has
	been notified of a violation of the fair housing law that has been
	filed with the United States Department of Housing and Urban
	Development, the Commission on Human Rights, or the United States
	Department of Justice; and
	(J)  a statement as to whether the development has
	any instances of material noncompliance with bond indentures or
	deed restrictions discovered through the normal monitoring
	activities and procedures that include meeting occupancy
	requirements or rent restrictions imposed by deed restriction or
	financing agreements;
	(7)  a report on the geographic distribution of low
	income housing tax credits, the amount of unused low income housing
	tax credits, and the amount of low income housing tax credits
	received from the federal pool of unused funds from other states;
	and
	(8)  a statistical analysis, based on information
	provided by the fair housing sponsor reports required by Section
	2306.0724 and other available data, of average rents reported by
	county.
	SECTION 2.  Subsection (c), Section 2306.0721, Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  The plan must include:
	(1)  an estimate and analysis of the size and the
	different housing needs of the following populations in each
	uniform state service region:
	(A)  individuals and families of moderate, low,
	very low, and extremely low income;
	(B)  individuals with special needs; [and]
	(C)  homeless individuals;
	(D)  veterans;
	(E)  farmworkers; and
	(F)  youth who are aging out of foster care;
	(2)  a proposal to use all available housing resources
	to address the housing needs of the populations described by
	Subdivision (1) by establishing funding levels for all
	housing-related programs;
	(3)  an estimate of the number of federally assisted
	housing units available for individuals and families of low and
	very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform
	state service region;
	(4)  a description of state programs that govern the
	use of all available housing resources;
	(5)  a resource allocation plan that targets all
	available housing resources to individuals and families of low and
	very low income and individuals with special needs in each uniform
	state service region;
	(6)  a description of the department's efforts to
	monitor and analyze the unused or underused federal resources of
	other state agencies for housing-related services and services for
	homeless individuals and the department's recommendations to
	ensure the full use by the state of all available federal resources
	for those services in each uniform state service region;
	(7)  strategies to provide housing for individuals and
	families with special needs in each uniform state service region;
	(8)  a description of the department's efforts to
	encourage in each uniform state service region the construction of
	housing units that incorporate energy efficient construction and
	appliances;
	(9)  an estimate and analysis of the housing supply in
	each uniform state service region;
	(10)  an inventory of all publicly and, where possible,
	privately funded housing resources, including public housing
	authorities, housing finance corporations, community housing
	development organizations, and community action agencies;
	(11)  strategies for meeting rural housing needs;
	(12)  a biennial action plan for colonias that:
	(A)  addresses current policy goals for colonia
	programs, strategies to meet the policy goals, and the projected
	outcomes with respect to the policy goals; and
	(B)  includes information on the demand for
	contract-for-deed conversions, services from self-help centers,
	consumer education, and other colonia resident services in counties
	some part of which is within 150 miles of the international border
	of this state;
	(13)  a summary of public comments received at a
	hearing under this chapter or from another source that concern the
	demand for colonia resident services described by Subdivision (12);
	and
	(14)  any other housing-related information that the
	state is required to include in the one-year action plan of the
	consolidated plan submitted annually to the United States
	Department of Housing and Urban Development.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2011.
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