Texas Government Code Title 10, Chapter 2306 - Texas Department Of Housing And Community Affairs

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2306.001 - Purposes
  The purposes of the department are to: (1) assist local governments in: (A) providing essential public services for their residents; and (B) overcoming financial, social,...
• Texas Section 2306.002 - Policy
  (a) The legislature finds that: (1) every resident of this state should have a decent, safe, and affordable living environment; (2) government at all levels...
• Texas Section 2306.003 - Public Purpose
  The duties imposed and activities authorized by this chapter serve public purposes, and public money may be borrowed, spent, advanced, loaned, granted, or appropriated for...
• Texas Section 2306.004 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Board" means the governing board of the department. (2) "Bond" means an evidence of indebtedness or other obligation, regardless of the...
• Texas Section 2306.005 - References To Former Law
  A reference in law to the Texas Housing Agency or the Texas Department of Community Affairs means the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs....
• Texas Section 2306.006 - Rules Of Abolished Agencies
  Rules of the abolished Texas Housing Agency and the Texas Department of Community Affairs continue in effect as rules of the Texas Department of Housing...
• Texas Section 2306.007 - Establishing Economically Depressed Or Blighted Areas
  (a) To establish an economically depressed or blighted area under Section 2306.004(6)(B) or (C), the governing body of a municipality must hold a public hearing...

SUBCHAPTER B GOVERNING BOARD AND DEPARTMENT

• Texas Section 2306.008 - Preservation Of Affordable Housing
  (a) The department shall support in the manner described by Subsection (b) the preservation of affordable housing for individuals with special needs, as defined by...
• Texas Section 2306.022 - Application Of Sunset Act
  The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs is subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter,...
• Texas Section 2306.024 - Board Members: Appointment And Composition
  The board consists of seven public members appointed by the governor. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993....
• Texas Section 2306.025 - Terms Of Board Members
  Members of the board hold office for staggered terms of six years, with the terms of two or three members expiring on January 31 of...
• Texas Section 2306.027 - Eligibility
  (a) The governor shall appoint to the board public members who have a demonstrated interest in issues related to housing and community support services. A...
• Texas Section 2306.028 - Training
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the board may not vote, deliberate, or be counted as...
• Texas Section 2306.030 - Presiding Officer; Other Officers
  (a) The governor shall designate a member of the board as the presiding officer of the board to serve in that capacity at the will...
• Texas Section 2306.031 - Members' Compensation
  Members of the board serve without compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for actual expenses incurred in attending board meetings and in performing the duties...
• Texas Section 2306.032 - Board Meetings
  (a) The board may hold meetings when called by the presiding officer, the director, or three of the members. (b) The board shall keep minutes...
• Texas Section 2306.0321 - Appeal Of Board And Department Decisions
  (a) The board shall adopt rules outlining a formal process for appealing board and department decisions. (b) The rules must specify the requirements for appealing...
• Texas Section 2306.033 - Removal Of Members
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board that a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office the qualifications...
• Texas Section 2306.034 - Disqualification Of Members And Certain Employees
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to assist...
• Texas Section 2306.035 - Lobbyist Restriction
  A person may not be a member of the board or act as the director of the department or the general counsel to the board...
• Texas Section 2306.036 - Employment Of Director
  (a) With the approval of the governor, the board shall employ a director to serve at the pleasure of the board. (b) After the election...
• Texas Section 2306.037 - Director's Compensation
  The board shall set the salary of the director. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by...
• Texas Section 2306.038 - Acting Director
  The board shall establish a procedure for designating an acting director and shall, with the approval of the governor, immediately designate an acting director or...
• Texas Section 2306.039 - Open Meetings And Open Records
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), the department and the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation are subject to Chapters 551 and 552....
• Texas Section 2306.040 - Department Participation In Legislative Hearing
  On request, the department shall participate in any public hearing conducted by a legislator to discuss a rule to be adopted by the department. Added...
• Texas Section 2306.041 - Imposition Of Penalty
  The board may impose an administrative penalty on a person who violates this chapter or a rule or order adopted under this chapter. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.042 - Amount Of Penalty
  (a) The amount of an administrative penalty may not exceed $1,000 for each violation. Each day a violation continues or occurs is a separate violation...
• Texas Section 2306.043 - Report And Notice Of Violation And Penalty
  (a) If the director determines that a violation occurred, the director shall issue to the board a report stating: (1) the facts on which the...
• Texas Section 2306.044 - Penalty To Be Paid Or Hearing Requested
  (a) Not later than the 20th day after the date the person receives the notice, the person in writing may: (1) accept the determination and...
• Texas Section 2306.045 - Hearing
  (a) If the person requests a hearing before the State Office of Administrative Hearings or fails to respond in a timely manner to the notice,...
• Texas Section 2306.046 - Decision By Board
  Sec. 2306.046. DECISION BY BOARD. (a) The board shall issue an order after receiving a proposal for decision from the State Office of Administrative Hearings...
• Texas Section 2306.047 - Options Following Decision: Pay Or Appeal
  Not later than the 30th day after the date the board's order becomes final, the person shall: (1) pay the penalty; or (2) file a...
• Texas Section 2306.048 - Stay Of Enforcement Of Penalty
  (a) Within the 30-day period prescribed by Section 2306.047, a person who files a petition for judicial review may: (1) stay enforcement of the penalty...
• Texas Section 2306.049 - Decision By Court
  (a) Judicial review of a board order imposing an administrative penalty is under the substantial evidence rule. (b) If the court sustains the finding that...
• Texas Section 2306.050 - Remittance Of Penalty And Interest
  (a) If the person paid the penalty and if the amount of the penalty is reduced or the penalty is not upheld by the court,...
• Texas Section 2306.0501 - Release Of Bond
  (a) If the person gave a supersedeas bond and the penalty is not upheld by the court, the court shall order, when the court's judgment...
• Texas Section 2306.0502 - Collection Of Penalty
  (a) If the person does not pay the penalty and the enforcement of the penalty is not stayed, the penalty may be collected. (b) The...
• Texas Section 2306.0503 - Administrative Procedure
  A proceeding to impose the penalty is considered to be a contested case under Chapter 2001. Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1341...

SUBCHAPTER C POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 2306.0504 - Debarment From Program Participation
  (a) The department shall develop, and the board by rule shall adopt, a policy providing for the debarment of a person from participation in programs...
• Texas Section 2306.051 - Separation Of Responsibilities
  The board shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policy-making responsibilities of the board and the management responsibilities of the director and staff...
• Texas Section 2306.052 - Director's Powers And Duties
  (a) The director is the administrator and the head of the department and must be an individual qualified by training and experience to perform the...
• Texas Section 2306.0521 - Organizational Flexibility Of Department
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2306.021(b) or any other provision of this chapter, the director, with the approval of the board, may: (1) create divisions in addition...
• Texas Section 2306.053 - Department Powers And Duties
  (a) The department shall maintain suitable headquarters and other offices in this state that the director determines are necessary. (b) The department may: (1) sue...
• Texas Section 2306.054 - Special Advisory Councils
  (a) The governor or director may appoint special advisory councils to: (1) assist the department in reviewing basic policy; or (2) offer advice on technical...
• Texas Section 2306.055 - Transfers From Governor
  The governor may transfer to any division personnel, equipment, records, obligations, appropriations, functions, and duties of appropriate divisions of the governor's office. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 2306.056 - Committees
  (a) The presiding officer may appoint a committee composed of board members to carry out the board's duties. (b) The board may consider a recommendation...

SUBCHAPTER D GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2306.057 - Compliance Assessment Required For Project Approval By Board
  (a) Before the board approves any project application submitted under this chapter, the department, through the division with responsibility for compliance matters, shall: (1) assess:...
• Texas Section 2306.061 - Standards Of Conduct
  The director or the director's designee shall become aware of and provide to members of the board and to department employees, as often as necessary,...
• Texas Section 2306.063 - Performance Evaluations
  The director or the director's designee shall develop a system of annual performance evaluations. All merit pay for department employees must be based on the...
• Texas Section 2306.064 - Equal Employment Opportunities
  (a) The director or the director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to ensure implementation of a program of equal employment opportunity...
• Texas Section 2306.065 - Discrimination Prohibited
  An individual may not, because of that individual's race, color, national origin, or sex, be excluded from participation, be denied benefits, or be subjected to...
• Texas Section 2306.066 - Information And Complaints
  (a) The department shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the department and the procedures by which complaints are filed with and...
• Texas Section 2306.067 - Loaned Employees
  (a) The director may enter into reciprocal agreements with a state agency or instrumentality or local government to loan or assign department employees to that...
• Texas Section 2306.068 - Interagency Cooperation
  An agency or institution of the state shall cooperate with the department by providing personnel, information, and technical advice as the department assists the governor...
• Texas Section 2306.069 - Legal Counsel
  (a) With the approval of the attorney general, the department may hire appropriate outside legal counsel. (b) The department may hire in-house legal counsel. The...
• Texas Section 2306.070 - Budget
  (a) In preparing the department's legislative appropriations request, the department shall also prepare: (1) a report detailing the fees received, on a cash basis, for...
• Texas Section 2306.0705 - General Appropriations Act
  Except as specifically provided by this chapter, the department is subject to the General Appropriations Act. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec....
• Texas Section 2306.071 - Funds
  (a) The department may request, contract for, receive, and spend for its purposes an appropriation, grant, allocation, subsidy, rent supplement, guarantee, aid, contribution, gift, service,...
• Texas Section 2306.072 - Annual Low Income Housing Report
  (a) Not later than March 18 of each year, the director shall prepare and submit to the board an annual report of the department's housing...
• Texas Section 2306.0721 - Low Income Housing Plan
  (a) Not later than March 18 of each year, the director shall prepare and submit to the board an integrated state low income housing plan...
• Texas Section 2306.0722 - Preparation Of Plan And Report
  (a) Before preparing the annual low income housing report under Section 2306.072 and the state low income housing plan under Section 2306.0721, the department shall...
• Texas Section 2306.0723 - Report Considered As Rule
  The department shall consider the annual low income housing report to be a rule and in developing the report shall follow rulemaking procedures required by...
• Texas Section 2306.0724 - Fair Housing Sponsor Report
  (a) The department shall require the owner of each housing development that receives financial assistance from the department and that contains 20 or more living...
• Texas Section 2306.073 - Internal Audit
  (a) The director, with the approval of the board, shall appoint an internal auditor who reports directly to the board and serves at the pleasure...
• Texas Section 2306.074 - Audit
  (a) The department's books and accounts must be audited each fiscal year by a certified public accountant or, if requested by the department and if...
• Texas Section 2306.075 - Tax Exemption
  The property of the department, its income, and its operations are exempt from all taxes and assessments imposed by this state and all public agencies...
• Texas Section 2306.076 - Insurance
  (a) The board may purchase from department funds liability insurance for the director, board members, officers, and employees of the department. (b) The board may...
• Texas Section 2306.077 - Internet Availability
  (a) In this section, "Internet" means the largest, nonproprietary, nonprofit, cooperative, public computer network, popularly known as the Internet. (b) The department, to the extent...
• Texas Section 2306.078 - Information Regarding Housing For Persons With Disabilities
  (a) The department shall establish a system that requires owners of state or federally assisted housing developments with 20 or more housing units to report...
• Texas Section 2306.080 - Database Information Specialist
  The director shall appoint a database information specialist. The primary responsibility of the database information specialist is to provide for the effective and efficient dissemination...
• Texas Section 2306.081 - Project Compliance; Database
  (a) The department, through the division with responsibility for compliance matters, shall monitor for compliance with all applicable requirements the entire construction phase associated with...
• Texas Section 2306.082 - Negotiated Rulemaking; Alternative Dispute Resolution
  (a) The department shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008 for the adoption of...

SUBCHAPTER E COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

• Texas Section 2306.083 - Report To Secretary Of State
  (a) In this section, "colonia" means a geographic area that: (1) is an economically distressed area as defined by Section 17.921, Water Code; (2) is...
• Texas Section 2306.092 - Duties Regarding Certain Programs Created Under Federal Law
  The department shall administer, as appropriate under policies established by the board: (1) state responsibilities for programs created under the federal Economic Opportunity Act of...
• Texas Section 2306.093 - Housing Assistance Goal
  By action of the board the community affairs division shall have a goal to apply a minimum of 25 percent of the division's total housing-related...
• Texas Section 2306.094 - Services For The Homeless
  The department shall administer the state's allocation of federal funds provided under the Emergency Shelter Grants Program (42 U.S.C. Section 11371 et seq.), as amended,...
• Texas Section 2306.097 - Energy Services Program For Low-income Individuals
  (a) The Energy Services Program for Low-Income Individuals shall operate in conjunction with the community services block grant program and has jurisdiction and responsibility for...

SUBCHAPTER F HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2306.0985 - Recovery Of Funds From Certain Subdivisions
  (a) It is the intent of the legislature that a private developer not unduly benefit from the expenditure by the state of public funds on...
• Texas Section 2306.111 - Housing Funds
  (a) The department, through the housing finance division, shall administer all federal housing funds provided to the state under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act...
• Texas Section 2306.1111 - Uniform Application And Funding Cycles
  (a) Notwithstanding any other state law and to the extent consistent with federal law, the department shall establish uniform application and funding cycles for all...
• Texas Section 2306.1112 - Executive Award And Review Advisory Committee
  (a) The department shall establish an executive award and review advisory committee to make recommendations to the board regarding funding and allocation decisions. (b) The...
• Texas Section 2306.1113 - Ex Parte Communications
  (a) During the period beginning on the date project applications are filed in an application cycle and ending on the date the board makes a...
• Texas Section 2306.1114 - Notice Of Receipt Of Application Or Proposed Application
  (a) Not later than the 14th day after the date an application or a proposed application for housing funds described by Section 2306.111 has been...
• Texas Section 2306.1115 - Regional Allocation Formula
  (a) To allocate housing funds under Section 2306.111(d), the department shall develop a formula that: (1) includes as a factor the need for housing assistance...
• Texas Section 2306.112 - Preparation And Content Of Annual Budget
  (a) On or before August 1 of each year, the director shall file with the board a proposed annual budget for the housing finance division...
• Texas Section 2306.113 - Board Consideration Of Annual Budget
  On or before September 1 of each year, the board shall consider the director's proposed annual budget for the housing finance division and shall approve...
• Texas Section 2306.114 - Filing Of Annual Budget
  (a) Copies of the annual budget certified by the presiding officer of the board shall be filed promptly with the governor and the legislature. (b)...
• Texas Section 2306.115 - Failure To Adopt Annual Budget
  If the board does not adopt the annual budget on or before September 1, the budget for the preceding year remains in effect until a...
• Texas Section 2306.116 - Amended Annual Budget
  (a) The board may adopt an amended annual budget during the fiscal year. (b) An amended annual budget does not supersede a prior budget until...
• Texas Section 2306.117 - Payment Of Expenses; Indebtedness
  (a) The expenses incurred in carrying out the functions of the housing finance division may be paid only from revenues or funds provided under this...
• Texas Section 2306.118 - Deposit Of Funds With Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company
  Except as provided by Section 2306.120, revenue and funds of the department received by or payable through the programs and functions of the housing finance...
• Texas Section 2306.119 - Selection Of Depository For Operating Funds
  (a) The department shall choose a depository for the operating funds of the housing finance division after inviting bids for favorable interest rates. (b) The...
• Texas Section 2306.120 - Selection Of Depository Under Covenants Of Bonds Or Trust Indentures
  (a) If covenants related to the department's bonds or the trust indentures governing the bonds specify one or more depositories or set out a method...
• Texas Section 2306.121 - Records
  The housing finance division shall keep complete records and accounts of its business transactions according to generally accepted accounting principles. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd...
• Texas Section 2306.123 - Area Median Income
  The department may determine the median income of an individual or family for an area by using a source or methodology acceptable under federal law...
• Texas Section 2306.1231 - Federal Poverty Line
  The department shall use the applicable federal poverty line in determining eligibility for each federal or state program administered by the department that requires poverty...
• Texas Section 2306.124 - Rules Regarding Housing Developments
  The department may adopt and publish rules regarding the: (1) making of mortgage loans under this subchapter; (2) regulation of borrowers; (3) construction of ancillary...
• Texas Section 2306.125 - Court Actions
  (a) The department may institute a judicial action or proceeding against a housing sponsor receiving a loan or owning a housing development under this chapter...
• Texas Section 2306.126 - Exemption From Property Tax
  (a) The department may, under its terms, conditions, and rules, pay public agencies in lieu of ad valorem taxes on property that the department acquires...

SUBCHAPTER G HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF BOARD

• Texas Section 2306.127 - Priority For Certain Communities
  In a manner consistent with the regional allocation formula described under Section 2306.111(d), the department shall give priority through its housing program scoring criteria to...
• Texas Section 2306.141 - Rules
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to adopt rules governing the administration of the housing finance division and its programs. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.142 - Authorization Of Bonds
  (a) Subject to the requirements of this section, the board shall authorize all bonds issued by the department. (b) If the issuance is authorized by...
• Texas Section 2306.143 - Alternative To Subprime Lender List
  (a) If the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development ceases to prepare or make public a subprime lender list, the market study required...
• Texas Section 2306.144 - Fees For Services And Facilities; Payment Of Department Obligations And Expenses
  (a) It is the duty of the board to establish and collect sufficient fees for services and facilities. (b) The board shall use available sources...
• Texas Section 2306.145 - Loan Procedures
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to adopt procedures for approving loans, purchases of loans and interests in loans, and commitments to...
• Texas Section 2306.146 - Interest Rates And Amortization Schedules
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to establish interest rates and amortization schedules for loans made or financed under this chapter. Added...
• Texas Section 2306.147 - Fees And Penalties
  (a) The board shall have the specific duty and power to establish a schedule of fees and penalties relating to the operation of the housing...
• Texas Section 2306.148 - Underwriting Standards
  (a) The board shall have the specific duty and power to adopt underwriting standards for: (1) loans made or financed by the housing finance division;...
• Texas Section 2306.149 - Approved Mortgage Lenders
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to compile a list of approved mortgage lenders. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268,...
• Texas Section 2306.150 - Property Standards
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to adopt minimum property standards for housing developments financed or acquired under this chapter. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.151 - Target Strategy For Bond Proceeds
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to adopt a target strategy for the percentage of mortgage revenue bond proceeds to be made...

SUBCHAPTER H HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT

• Texas Section 2306.152 - Eligibility Criteria
  The board shall have the specific duty and power to establish eligibility criteria for participation in the housing finance division's programs for individuals and families...
• Texas Section 2306.171 - General Duties Of Department Relating To Purposes Of Housing Finance Division
  The department shall: (1) develop policies and programs designed to increase the number of individuals and families of extremely low, very low, and low income...
• Texas Section 2306.1711 - Rulemaking Procedures For Certain Programs
  (a) The department shall adopt rules outlining formal rulemaking procedures for the low income housing tax credit program and the multifamily housing mortgage revenue bond...
• Texas Section 2306.172 - Acquisition And Use Of Money; Depositories
  The department may: (1) acquire, hold, invest, deposit, use, and spend its income and money from every source; and (2) select its depository or depositories,...
• Texas Section 2306.173 - Investments
  Subject to a resolution authorizing issuance of its bonds, the department may: (1) invest its money in bonds, obligations, or other securities; or (2) place...
• Texas Section 2306.174 - Acquisition And Disposition Of Property
  The department may: (1) acquire, own, rent, lease, accept, hold, or dispose of any real, personal, or mixed property, or any interest in property, including...
• Texas Section 2306.175 - Transfer And Disposition Of Property; Manner Of Sale
  (a) The department may: (1) sell, assign, lease, encumber, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of real, personal, or mixed property, or an interest in property, or...
• Texas Section 2306.176 - Fees
  The department may set, charge, and collect fees relating to loans made or other services provided by the department under this chapter. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 2306.177 - Hearings
  The department may: (1) conduct hearings; and (2) take testimony and proof, under oath, at public hearings, on matters necessary to carry out the department's...
• Texas Section 2306.178 - Insurance
  The department may acquire, and pay premiums on, insurance of any kind in amounts and from insurers that the board considers necessary or advisable. Added...
• Texas Section 2306.179 - Investigation
  The department may: (1) investigate housing conditions and means for improving those conditions; and (2) determine the location of slum or blighted areas. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.180 - Encouraging Home Ownership
  The department may encourage individual or cooperative home ownership among individuals and families of low and very low income and families of moderate income. Added...
• Texas Section 2306.181 - Targeting Bond Proceeds
  The department may target the proceeds from housing bonds issued by it to a geographic area or areas of the state. Added by Acts 1993,...
• Texas Section 2306.182 - Loans To Lenders
  The department may make loans to mortgage lenders, public agencies, or other housing sponsors and use the proceeds to make loans for multifamily housing developments...
• Texas Section 2306.183 - Needs Of Qualifying Individuals And Families In Rural Areas And Small Municipalities
  The department may adopt a target strategy to ensure that the credit and housing needs of qualifying individuals and families who reside in rural areas...
• Texas Section 2306.184 - Disclosure Of Fees
  (a) This section does not apply to an application submitted by an individual or family for a loan, grant, or other assistance under a program...
• Texas Section 2306.185 - Long-term Affordability And Safety Of Multifamily Rental Housing Developments
  (a) The department shall adopt policies and procedures to ensure that, for a multifamily rental housing development funded through loans, grants, or tax credits under...
• Texas Section 2306.186 - Mandatory Deposits To Fund Necessary Repairs
  (a) In this section: (1) "Bank trustee" means a bank authorized to do business in this state, with the power to act as trustee. (2)...
• Texas Section 2306.187 - Energy Efficiency Standards For Certain Single And Multifamily Dwellings
  (a) A newly constructed single or multifamily dwelling that is constructed with assistance awarded by the department, including state or federal money, housing tax credits,...

SUBCHAPTER I HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: FUNDS

• Texas Section 2306.188 - Establishing Home Ownership In Disaster Area
  (a) An applicant for federally provided financial assistance administered by the department to repair or rebuild a home damaged by a natural disaster may establish...
• Texas Section 2306.201 - Housing Trust Fund
  (a) The housing trust fund is a fund: (1) administered by the department through the housing finance division; and (2) placed with the Texas Treasury...
• Texas Section 2306.202 - Use Of Housing Trust Fund
  (a) The department, through the housing finance division, shall use the housing trust fund to provide loans, grants, or other comparable forms of assistance to...
• Texas Section 2306.203 - Rules Regarding Administration Of Housing Trust Fund
  The board shall adopt rules to administer the housing trust fund, including rules providing: (1) that the division give priority to programs that maximize federal...
• Texas Section 2306.204 - Independent Audit Of Housing Trust Fund
  (a) An independent auditor shall annually conduct an audit of the housing trust fund to determine the amount of unencumbered fund balances that is greater...
• Texas Section 2306.205 - Transfer Of Money To Housing Trust Fund
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (c), (d), and (e), not later than January 10 of each year the housing finance division shall transfer to...
• Texas Section 2306.206 - Housing Trust Fund Not Subject To Texas Trust Code
  The housing trust fund provided for by this subchapter is not subject to Subtitle B, Title 9, Property Code. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER J HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Texas Section 2306.207 - Reserve Fund
  (a) The department may create a reserve fund with the comptroller out of: (1) proceeds from the sale of the department's bonds; or (2) other...
• Texas Section 2306.221 - Housing Development Loans
  To finance the purchase, construction, remodeling, improvement, or rehabilitation of housing developments for residential housing designed and planned for individuals and families of low and...
• Texas Section 2306.222 - Contracts And Agreements Regarding Housing Developments
  The department may enter into agreements and contracts with housing sponsors and mortgage lenders under this chapter to make or participate in mortgage loans for...
• Texas Section 2306.223 - Criteria For Financing Housing Development Of Housing Sponsor
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may not finance a housing development undertaken by a housing sponsor under this chapter, unless the...
• Texas Section 2306.224 - Loan Terms And Conditions
  A loan financed through a program of the housing finance division under this subchapter is subject to the terms and conditions provided by this subchapter....
• Texas Section 2306.225 - Ratio Of Loan To Development Cost; Amortization Period
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the ratio of loan to total housing development cost and the amortization period of a loan insured or...
• Texas Section 2306.226 - Interest Rates
  (a) The board shall set the interest rates at which the housing finance division makes loans and loan commitments. (b) The interest rates shall be...
• Texas Section 2306.227 - Prepayment Of Mortgage Loans
  A mortgage loan made under this chapter may be prepaid to maturity after the period of years and under the terms and conditions determined by...
• Texas Section 2306.228 - Loan Fees
  The department shall make and collect loan fees that the department determines are reasonable, including: (1) fees to reimburse the housing finance division's financing costs;...
• Texas Section 2306.229 - Documents Supporting Mortgage Loans
  (a) A mortgage loan shall be evidenced by a mortgage or deed of trust note or bond and by a mortgage that creates a lien...
• Texas Section 2306.230 - Agreements Regarding Certain Limitations On Housing Sponsors
  A mortgage loan is subject to an agreement between the department and the housing sponsor that subjects the sponsor and its principals or stockholders to...
• Texas Section 2306.231 - Loan Conditions Relating To Department Powers
  As a condition of each loan, the department, acting through the housing finance division, may at any time during the construction, rehabilitation, or operation of...

SUBCHAPTER K HOUSING PROGRAMS

• Texas Section 2306.232 - Texas Housing Agency Loan Or Guarantee
  A loan or guarantee made by the Texas Housing Agency becomes a loan or guarantee of the department. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 2306.251 - Property Ownership Program
  (a) While it is not the intent of the legislature that the department compete with the private sector by becoming a long-term owner of real...
• Texas Section 2306.252 - Housing Resource Center
  (a) The board shall establish a housing resource center in the housing finance division. (b) The department, through the center, shall: (1) provide educational material...
• Texas Section 2306.253 - Homebuyer Education Program
  (a) The department shall develop and implement a statewide homebuyer education program designed to provide information and counseling to prospective homebuyers about the home buying...
• Texas Section 2306.255 - Contract For Deed Conversion Program
  (a) In this section, "office" means the office established by the department to promote initiatives for colonias. (b) The office shall establish a program to...
• Texas Section 2306.256 - Affordable Housing Preservation Program
  (a) The department shall develop and implement a program to preserve affordable housing in this state. (b) Through the program, the department shall: (1) maintain...
• Texas Section 2306.2561 - Affordable Housing Preservation Program: Loans And Grants
  (a) The department, through the housing finance division, shall provide loans and grants to political subdivisions, housing finance corporations, public housing authorities, for-profit organizations, nonprofit...
• Texas Section 2306.257 - Applicant Compliance With State And Federal Laws Prohibiting Discrimination: Certification And Monitoring
  (a) The department may provide assistance through a housing program under this chapter only to an applicant who certifies the applicant's compliance with: (1) state...
• Texas Section 2306.258 - Transitional Housing Pilot Program
  (a) If funds are available, the department shall operate a transitional housing pilot program in four areas of the state. (b) The program must address...
• Texas Section 2306.2585 - Homeless Housing And Services Program
  (a) The department may administer a homeless housing and services program in each municipality in this state with a population of 285,500 or more to:...

SUBCHAPTER L HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: REGULATION OF HOUSING SPONSORS

• Texas Section 2306.259 - Affordable Housing Research And Information Program
  With money available under Section 1372.006(a), the department shall establish an affordable housing research and information program in which the department shall contract for: (1)...
• Texas Section 2306.261 - Supervising Housing Sponsors
  The housing finance division may, as provided by this subchapter, supervise: (1) housing sponsors, including limited profit housing sponsors, of housing developments that are financed...
• Texas Section 2306.262 - Uniform Systems Of Accounts And Records
  The department may require uniform systems of accounts and records for housing sponsors. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept....
• Texas Section 2306.263 - Reporting
  The department may require housing sponsors to: (1) make reports and certifications of their expenditures; and (2) answer specific questions on forms whenever necessary for...
• Texas Section 2306.2631 - Reports By Sponsors Of Certain Multifamily Housing Developments
  (a) This section applies only to a housing sponsor of a multifamily housing development that: (1) receives financial assistance from the state; (2) receives financial...
• Texas Section 2306.264 - Inspections And Examinations
  The department, through its agents or employees, may: (1) enter and inspect, in whole or in part, the land, buildings, and equipment of a housing...
• Texas Section 2306.265 - Operation, Maintenance, And Repair
  The department may: (1) supervise the operation and maintenance of a housing development; and (2) order necessary repairs to protect the public interest or the...
• Texas Section 2306.266 - Fees Relating To Regulation
  The department may require a housing sponsor to pay the housing finance division fees for the cost of regulating the housing sponsor, including the cost...
• Texas Section 2306.267 - Compliance With Applicable Laws, Rules, And Contract Terms
  The department may order a housing sponsor to perform or refrain from performing certain acts in order to comply with the law, department rules, or...
• Texas Section 2306.268 - Rents And Charges
  The department shall approve and may change from time to time a schedule of rents and charges for a housing development operated by the department...
• Texas Section 2306.269 - Tenant And Manager Selection
  (a) The department shall set standards for tenant and management selection by a housing sponsor. (b) The department shall prohibit a multifamily rental housing development...
• Texas Section 2306.270 - Regulation Of Retirement Of Capital Investment Or Redemption Of Stock
  The department shall regulate the retirement of a capital investment or the redemption of stock of a limited profit housing sponsor if the retirement or...
• Texas Section 2306.271 - Cost Controls
  (a) The housing finance division by rule shall specify the categories of costs allowable in the construction, reconstruction, remodeling, improvement, or rehabilitation of a housing...
• Texas Section 2306.272 - Housing Sponsor Investments
  (a) A principal or stockholder of a housing sponsor may not earn, accept, or receive a per annum return on an investment in a housing...

SUBCHAPTER M HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION: PURCHASE AND SALE OF MORTGAGE LOANS

• Texas Section 2306.273 - Limitation On Application Of Certain Provisions Of Subchapter
  Sections 2306.261 through 2306.271 do not apply to a housing development: (1) for which individuals or families of low and very low income or families...
• Texas Section 2306.291 - Purchase And Sale Of Mortgage Loans
  (a) The department may purchase and take assignments from mortgage lenders or the federal government of notes and other obligations, including contracts for deed and...
• Texas Section 2306.292 - Eligibility Of Mortgage Loans For Purchase
  A mortgage loan or interest in a mortgage loan is not eligible for purchase by or on behalf of the department from a mortgage lender...
• Texas Section 2306.293 - Federally Assisted Mortgage Loans
  A mortgage loan or interest in a mortgage loan purchased or sold under this subchapter may include a mortgage loan that is insured, guaranteed, or...
• Texas Section 2306.294 - Mortgage Loan Purchase Price
  (a) On purchasing a mortgage loan or interest in a mortgage loan from a mortgage lender, the department shall pay a purchase price equal to...
• Texas Section 2306.295 - Rules Governing Purchase And Sale Of Mortgage Loans
  The department shall adopt rules governing the purchase and sale of mortgage loans and the application of sale proceeds, including rules governing: (1) procedures for...
• Texas Section 2306.296 - Review And Substitution Of Purchased Mortgage Loans
  (a) The department shall review each mortgage loan purchased or financed by the department to determine if the loan meets: (1) the conditions of this...

SUBCHAPTER P HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: ISSUANCE OF BONDS

• Texas Section 2306.297 - Application Of Provisions Relating To Loan Terms And Conditions
  Sections 2306.225 through 2306.229 apply to the purchase of mortgage loans. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
• Texas Section 2306.351 - Issuance Of Bonds
  (a) The department may issue bonds under this chapter, including qualified 501(c)(3) bonds under Section 145, Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 145),...
• Texas Section 2306.352 - Texas Housing Bonds
  (a) The board by resolution may provide for the issuance of negotiable bonds as authorized by the Texas Constitution. (b) The bonds shall be on...
• Texas Section 2306.353 - Revenue Bonds
  (a) In addition to issuing general obligation bonds under Section 2306.352, the department may issue revenue bonds to provide money to carry out a purpose,...
• Texas Section 2306.354 - Definitive Refunding Bonds
  (a) The department may issue definitive refunding bonds if the bonds are issued and delivered to refund: (1) other department bonds; or (2) the obligations...
• Texas Section 2306.355 - Issuance Of Additional Parity Or Subordinate Lien Bonds
  The department may issue additional parity bonds or subordinate lien bonds under terms or conditions in the resolution authorizing issuance of the bonds. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.356 - Issuance Of Bonds To Fund Department Reserves Or Funds
  The department may issue bonds to provide all or part of the money required for funding or increasing the department's reserves or funds. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.357 - Bonds Issued By Texas Housing Agency
  A general obligation or revenue bond issued by the Texas Housing Agency becomes a general obligation or revenue bond of the department. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 2306.358 - Issuance Of Qualified 501(c)(3) Bonds
  Sec. 2306.358. ISSUANCE OF QUALIFIED 501(C)(3) BONDS. (a) Of the total qualified 501(c)(3) bonds issued under Section 145 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986...

SUBCHAPTER Q HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: BOARD ACTION ON BONDS

• Texas Section 2306.359 - Issuance Of Private Activity Bonds
  (a) In evaluating an application for an issuance of private activity bonds, the department shall score and rank the application using a point system based...
• Texas Section 2306.371 - Board Authorization Of Bonds
  Bonds issued by the department must be authorized by board resolution. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
• Texas Section 2306.372 - Department Procedures
  In a resolution authorizing the issuance of department bonds, the board may prescribe the systems and procedures under which the department shall function. Added by...
• Texas Section 2306.373 - Use Of Bond Proceeds
  The board may provide in a resolution authorizing the issuance of department bonds that part of the proceeds from the sale of the bonds may...
• Texas Section 2306.374 - Facsimile Signatures And Seals
  (a) The board may state in a resolution authorizing the issuance of an installment or series of bonds the extent to which the presiding officer...

SUBCHAPTER R HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: FORM; TERMS

• Texas Section 2306.375 - Personal Liability Of Board Member Or Director
  A member of the board or the director is not liable personally for bonds issued or contracts executed by the department or for any other...
• Texas Section 2306.391 - Form
  The department's bonds may be issued as: (1) serial bonds; (2) term bonds; or (3) a combination of serial and term bonds as determined by...
• Texas Section 2306.392 - Denomination
  (a) The department's bonds may be issued: (1) in coupon form payable to bearer; (2) in fully registered form; (3) as coupon bonds payable to...
• Texas Section 2306.393 - Manner, Price, And Terms
  The department's bonds may be sold in a manner, at a price, and under terms and conditions determined by the board under a contractual arrangement...
• Texas Section 2306.394 - Place Of Payment; Medium Of Exchange
  (a) The department's bonds may be payable at a place inside or outside the United States. (b) The bonds may be made payable in any...
• Texas Section 2306.395 - Interest On Bonds
  The department's bonds may be issued to bear interest at a rate determined by the board. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec....
• Texas Section 2306.396 - Maturity Of Bonds
  The department's bonds may mature within a period determined by the board. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1,

SUBCHAPTER S HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: SECURITY FOR BONDS

• Texas Section 2306.397 - Redemption Before Maturity; Conversion
  (a) Department bonds may be made redeemable before maturity. (b) The board may provide and covenant for the: (1) conversion of one form of bond...
• Texas Section 2306.411 - Security For Payment Of Principal, Interest, And Redemption Premium
  (a) In addition to other security for the department's bonds authorized by this chapter, payment of the principal and interest and redemption premium, if any,...

SUBCHAPTER T HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: APPROVAL, REGISTRATION, AND EXECUTION

• Texas Section 2306.412 - Validity Of Liens And Pledges
  (a) A lien on or pledge of revenues, income, assets, reserves, funds, or other resources of the department, as authorized by this chapter, is valid...
• Texas Section 2306.431 - Approval Of Bonds
  (a) Bonds issued by the department and the appropriate proceedings authorizing the bonds' issuance shall be submitted to the attorney general for examination. (b) The...
• Texas Section 2306.432 - Registration
  On approval of the attorney general under Section 2306.431, the comptroller shall register the department's bonds. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec....

SUBCHAPTER U HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF BONDHOLDERS AND PARTIES IN INTEREST

• Texas Section 2306.433 - Execution
  Bonds authorized by Section 2306.352 shall be executed on the board's behalf as general obligations of the state as follows: (1) the presiding officer of...
• Texas Section 2306.451 - State Pledge Regarding Bondholder Rights And Remedies
  (a) The state pledges to and agrees with the holders of bonds issued under this chapter that it will not limit or alter the rights...

SUBCHAPTER V HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: OBLIGATIONS OF DEPARTMENT AND STATE

• Texas Section 2306.452 - Payment Enforceable By Mandamus
  A writ of mandamus and any other legal or equitable remedy are available to a party in interest to require the department, the comptroller, or...
• Texas Section 2306.471 - General Obligation Bonds
  General obligation bonds issued under Section 2306.352 and approved and registered under this chapter are general obligations of the state. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd...
• Texas Section 2306.472 - Department's Bonds Other Than General Obligation Bonds Not Obligations Of The State
  Except for bonds authorized by the Texas Constitution and issued under Section 2306.352, the department's bonds: (1) are solely obligations of the department and are...

SUBCHAPTER W HOUSING FINANCE DIVISION BONDS: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2306.473 - State Not Obligated To Pay; Faith And Credit Not Pledged
  A department bond not authorized by Section 2306.352 must contain a statement on the face of the bond that: (1) the state is not obligated...
• Texas Section 2306.491 - Bonds Negotiable Instruments
  Notwithstanding any other statute, a bond and interest coupon issued and delivered by the department is a negotiable instrument under the Uniform Commercial Code, except...
• Texas Section 2306.492 - Bonds Incontestable
  Department bonds are incontestable for any reason in a court or other forum after approval by the attorney general and registration by the comptroller and...
• Texas Section 2306.493 - Signature Of Former Officer
  If an officer whose manual or facsimile signature appears on a bond or whose facsimile signature appears on a coupon is not an officer at...
• Texas Section 2306.494 - Bonds Not Taxable
  The following are free from taxation or assessment by this state or a public agency: (1) department bonds issued under this chapter; (2) interest and...
• Texas Section 2306.495 - Authorized Investments
  Bonds issued by the department under this chapter are legal and authorized investments for: (1) banks; (2) savings banks; (3) trust companies; (4) savings and...
• Texas Section 2306.496 - Security For Deposit Of Funds
  Department bonds are eligible and lawful security for a deposit of public funds of the state or a public agency to the extent of the...
• Texas Section 2306.497 - Mutilated, Lost, Stolen, Or Destroyed Bonds
  The board may provide procedures for the replacement of a mutilated, lost, stolen, or destroyed bond or interest coupon. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.,...

SUBCHAPTER X INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

• Texas Section 2306.498 - No Gain Allowed
  (a) The director or a board member may not have or attempt to have a pecuniary interest in a transaction to which the department is...
• Texas Section 2306.511 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "individual with special needs" means an individual who: (1) is considered to be an individual having a disability under a state or...
• Texas Section 2306.512 - Special Needs
  The department may adopt a strategy to serve the needs of individuals with special needs. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 2306.513 - Housing For Individuals With Special Needs
  (a) The board shall adopt rules to achieve occupancy by individuals with special needs of at least five percent of the units in each multifamily...

SUBCHAPTER X-2 NATURAL DISASTER HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION INITIATIVE

• Texas Section 2306.514 - Construction Requirements For Single Family Affordable Housing
  (a) If a person is awarded state or federal funds by the department to construct single family affordable housing for individuals and families of low...
• Texas Section 2306.541 - Natural Disaster Housing Reconstruction Advisory Committee
  (a) The director shall appoint a natural disaster housing reconstruction advisory committee composed of representatives from appropriate local, state, and federal entities and organizations and...

SUBCHAPTER Y TEXAS STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION

• Texas Section 2306.542 - Housing Reconstruction Demonstration Pilot Program
  (a) Using the natural disaster housing reconstruction plan developed under this subchapter, the director and advisory committee shall develop, for implementation under Subsections (b) and...
• Texas Section 2306.551 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "corporation" means the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.66(d), eff. Sept. 1, 1995....
• Texas Section 2306.552 - Creation
  (a) The existence of the Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation, or any similarly named corporation, begins on the date that the secretary of state issues...
• Texas Section 2306.5521 - Sunset Provision
  The Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation is subject to Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued in existence as provided by that chapter, the corporation...
• Texas Section 2306.553 - Purposes
  Sec. 2306.553. PURPOSES. (a) The public purpose of the corporation is to perform activities and services that the corporation's board of directors determines will promote...
• Texas Section 2306.554 - Board Of Directors And Officers
  (a) The board of directors of the corporation consists of five members appointed by the governor. One member must represent the interests of individuals and...
• Texas Section 2306.5541 - Terms Of Members
  The members of the board of directors of the corporation serve staggered six-year terms, with the terms of one or two members expiring on February...
• Texas Section 2306.5542 - Removal Of Members
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the board of directors of the corporation that a member: (1) does not have at the time...
• Texas Section 2306.5543 - Training
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the corporation's board of directors may not vote, deliberate, or...
• Texas Section 2306.5545 - Conflict Of Interest Policies
  (a) The board of directors of the corporation shall develop and implement policies relating to employee conflicts of interest that are substantially similar to comparable...
• Texas Section 2306.5546 - Standards Of Conduct
  The president of the corporation or the president's designee shall provide to members of the board of directors of the corporation and to corporation employees,...
• Texas Section 2306.5547 - Division Of Responsibility
  The board of directors of the corporation shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policymaking responsibilities of the board of directors and the...
• Texas Section 2306.5548 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  (a) The president of the corporation or the president's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program of equal employment...
• Texas Section 2306.5549 - Meetings Of The Corporation's Board
  (a) The corporation's board may hold meetings when called by the presiding officer, the president, or three of the members. (b) The corporation's board shall...
• Texas Section 2306.555 - Powers
  (a) The corporation has the powers provided for the department under this chapter. (b) In addition to the powers granted by Subsection (a), the corporation...
• Texas Section 2306.5551 - Board Delegation Of Authority To Issue Bonds Or Other Obligations
  (a) The board of directors of the corporation may delegate to a member of the board or to an employee of the corporation the authority...
• Texas Section 2306.5552 - Technical And Financial Assistance Provided To Nonprofit Organizations
  The corporation shall supplement the technical and financial capacity of other appropriate nonprofit organizations to provide for the multifamily and single-family housing needs of individuals...
• Texas Section 2306.5553 - Historically Underutilized Businesses
  (a) The corporation shall make a good faith effort to provide contracting opportunities for, and to increase contract awards to, historically underutilized businesses for all...
• Texas Section 2306.5555 - Public Access
  The board of directors of the corporation shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the board...
• Texas Section 2306.556 - Exempt From Taxation And Registration
  (a) The corporation is exempt from all taxation by the state or a political subdivision of the state, including a municipality. (b) A bond or...
• Texas Section 2306.557 - Distribution Of Earnings
  Any part of earnings remaining after payment of expenses and any establishment of reserves by the corporation's board of directors may not inure to any...
• Texas Section 2306.558 - Alteration And Termination
  (a) Subject to this subchapter and the prohibition on the impairment of contracts in the law of this state, the corporation's board of directors by...
• Texas Section 2306.559 - Reporting Requirements
  (a) The corporation shall file an annual report of the financial activity of the corporation with the department. The corporation's board of directors shall submit...
• Texas Section 2306.560 - Audit
  (a) The corporation shall hire an independent certified public accountant to audit the corporation's books and accounts for each fiscal year. The corporation shall file...
• Texas Section 2306.561 - Liability
  (a) The directors, officers, and employees of the corporation are not personally liable for bonds or other obligations issued or contracts, guaranties, or insurance executed...
• Texas Section 2306.5621 - Homes For Texas Heroes Home Loan Program
  (a) In this section: (1) "Fire fighter" means a member of a fire department who performs a function listed in Section 419.021(3)(C), Government Code. (2)...
• Texas Section 2306.563 - Public Benefit Requirement
  (a) The corporation shall implement a requirement that a community housing development organization that receives an issuance of qualified 501(c)(3) bonds from the corporation to...
• Texas Section 2306.564 - Review Of Qualified 501(c)(3) Bond Issuance Policies
  Sec. 2306.564. REVIEW OF QUALIFIED 501(C)(3) BOND ISSUANCE POLICIES. (a) The corporation shall review annually its qualified 501(c)(3) bond issuance policies, including the public benefit...
• Texas Section 2306.565 - Issuance Of Qualified Residential Rental Project Bonds; Allocation Of Bond Funds
  (a) The corporation shall direct the Bond Review Board on the issuance of the portion of state ceiling set aside for the corporation under Section...
• Texas Section 2306.566 - Coordination Regarding State Low Income Housing Plan
  (a) The corporation shall review the needs assessment information provided to the corporation by the department under Section 2306.0722(b). (b) The corporation shall develop a...
• Texas Section 2306.567 - Compliance Information
  (a) The corporation shall provide to the department electronic copies of all compliance information compiled by the corporation. (b) Before approving an application regarding a...
• Texas Section 2306.5671 - Compliance With Terms Of Certain Contracts Or Agreements
  A compliance contract or agreement between the corporation and a housing sponsor that receives bond financing by or through the corporation for the purpose of...
• Texas Section 2306.568 - Record Of Complaints
  (a) The corporation shall maintain a system to promptly and efficiently act on complaints filed with the corporation. The corporation shall maintain information about parties...

SUBCHAPTER Z COLONIAS

• Texas Section 2306.569 - Effective Use Of Technology
  The corporation's board of directors shall develop and implement a policy requiring the president of the corporation and corporation employees to research and propose appropriate...
• Texas Section 2306.581 - Definition
  In this subchapter: (1) "Colonia" means a geographic area that is located in a county some part of which is within 150 miles of the...
• Texas Section 2306.582 - Colonia Self-help Centers: Establishment
  (a) The department shall establish colonia self-help centers in El Paso, Hidalgo, Starr, and Webb counties, and in Cameron County to serve Cameron and Willacy...
• Texas Section 2306.583 - Self-help Centers: Designation
  (a) The department shall designate a geographic area for the services provided by each self-help center. (b) In consultation with the colonia resident advisory committee...
• Texas Section 2306.584 - Colonia Resident Advisory Committee
  (a) The board shall appoint not fewer than five persons who are residents of colonias to serve on the Colonia Resident Advisory Committee. The members...
• Texas Section 2306.585 - Duties Of Colonia Resident Advisory Committee
  (a) The Colonia Resident Advisory Committee shall advise the board regarding: (1) the needs of colonia residents; (2) appropriate and effective programs that are proposed...
• Texas Section 2306.586 - Self-help Center: Purpose And Services
  (a) The purpose of a self-help center is to assist individuals and families of low income and very low income to finance, refinance, construct, improve,...
• Texas Section 2306.587 - Operation Of Self-help Center; Monitoring
  (a) To operate a self-help center, the department shall, subject to the availability of revenue for that purpose, enter into a four-year contract directly with...
• Texas Section 2306.588 - Department Liaison To Self-help Centers
  (a) The department shall designate appropriate staff in the department to act as liaison to the self-help centers to assist the centers in obtaining funding...
• Texas Section 2306.589 - Colonia Set-aside Fund
  (a) The department shall establish a fund in the department designated as the colonia set-aside fund. The department may contribute money to the fund from...
• Texas Section 2306.590 - Colonia Initiatives Advisory Committee
  (a) The Colonia Initiatives Advisory Committee is composed of seven members appointed by the governor as follows: (1) one colonia resident; (2) one representative of...

SUBCHAPTER AA MANUFACTURED HOUSING DIVISION

• Texas Section 2306.591 - Manufactured Homes Installed In Colonias
  (a) For a manufactured home to be approved for installation and use as a dwelling in a colonia: (1) the home must be a HUD-code...
• Texas Section 2306.6001 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Division" means the manufactured housing division. (2) "Division director" means the executive director of the division. (3) "Manufactured Housing Board" means...
• Texas Section 2306.6002 - Regulation And Enforcement
  The department shall administer and enforce Chapter 1201, Occupations Code, through the division. The Manufactured Housing Board and the division director shall exercise authority and...
• Texas Section 2306.6003 - Manufactured Housing Board
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board is an independent entity within the department, is administratively attached to the department, and is not an advisory body to...
• Texas Section 2306.6004 - Manufactured Housing Board Membership
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board consists of five public members appointed by the governor. (b) A person is eligible to be appointed as a public...
• Texas Section 2306.6005 - Conflict Of Interest
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to assist...
• Texas Section 2306.6006 - Terms; Vacancy
  (a) The members of the Manufactured Housing Board serve staggered six-year terms, with the terms of one or two members expiring on January 31 of...
• Texas Section 2306.6007 - Presiding Officer
  The governor shall designate a member of the Manufactured Housing Board as the presiding officer of the Manufactured Housing Board to serve in that capacity...
• Texas Section 2306.6008 - Grounds For Removal
  (a) It is a ground for removal from the Manufactured Housing Board that a member: (1) does not have at the time of taking office...
• Texas Section 2306.6009 - Reimbursement
  A Manufactured Housing Board member may not receive compensation, but may be reimbursed for actual travel expenses, including expenses for meals, lodging, and transportation. A...
• Texas Section 2306.6010 - Meetings
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board shall have regular meetings as the majority of the members may specify and special meetings at the request of the...
• Texas Section 2306.6011 - Training
  (a) A person who is appointed to and qualifies for office as a member of the Manufactured Housing Board may not vote, deliberate, or be...
• Texas Section 2306.6012 - Appropriations; Donations
  (a) The legislature shall separately appropriate money to the Manufactured Housing Board within the appropriations to the department for all matters relating to the operation...
• Texas Section 2306.6013 - Budget; Sharing Of Department Personnel, Equipment, And Facilities
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board shall develop a budget for the operations of the department relating to the division. (b) The Manufactured Housing Board shall...
• Texas Section 2306.6014 - Division Director
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board shall employ the division director. The division director is the Manufactured Housing Board's chief executive and administrative officer. (b) The...
• Texas Section 2306.6015 - Personnel
  The division director may employ staff as necessary to perform the work of the division and may prescribe their duties and compensation. Subject to applicable...
• Texas Section 2306.6016 - Separation Of Responsibilities
  The Manufactured Housing Board shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policy-making responsibilities of the Manufactured Housing Board and the management responsibilities of...
• Texas Section 2306.6017 - Standards Of Conduct
  The division director or the division director's designee shall provide to members of the Manufactured Housing Board and to division employees, as often as necessary,...
• Texas Section 2306.6018 - Equal Employment Opportunity
  (a) The division director or the division director's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program of equal employment opportunity...
• Texas Section 2306.6020 - Rules
  (a) The Manufactured Housing Board shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this subchapter and to administer and enforce the manufactured housing program through the...
• Texas Section 2306.6021 - Public Participation
  The Manufactured Housing Board shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the Manufactured Housing Board and...
• Texas Section 2306.6022 - Complaints
  (a) The division shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the division. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...

SUBCHAPTER DD LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM

• Texas Section 2306.6023 - Negotiated Rulemaking And Alternative Dispute Resolution
  (a) The division shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of: (1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008 for the adoption of...
• Texas Section 2306.6701 - Purpose
  The department shall administer the low income housing tax credit program to: (1) encourage the development and preservation of appropriate types of rental housing for...
• Texas Section 2306.6702 - Definitions
  (a) In this subchapter: (1) "Applicant" means any person or affiliate of a person who files an application with the department requesting a housing tax...
• Texas Section 2306.67021 - Applicability Of Subchapter
  Except as provided by Sections 2306.6703 and 2306.67071, this subchapter does not apply to the allocation of housing tax credits to developments financed through the...
• Texas Section 2306.67022 - Qualified Allocation Plan; Manual
  At least biennially, the board shall adopt a qualified allocation plan and a corresponding manual to provide information regarding the administration of and eligibility for...
• Texas Section 2306.6703 - Ineligibility For Consideration
  (a) An application is ineligible for consideration under the low income housing tax credit program if: (1) at the time of application or at any...
• Texas Section 2306.6704 - Preapplication Process
  (a) To prevent unnecessary filing costs, the department by rule shall establish a voluntary preapplication process to enable a preliminary assessment of an application proposed...
• Texas Section 2306.67041 - On-line Application System
  (a) The department and the Department of Information Resources shall cooperate to evaluate the feasibility of an on-line application system for the low income housing...
• Texas Section 2306.6705 - General Application Requirements
  An application must contain at a minimum the following written, detailed information in a form prescribed by the board: (1) a description of: (A) the...
• Texas Section 2306.67055 - Market Analysis
  (a) A market analysis submitted in conjunction with an application for housing tax credits must: (1) be prepared by a market analyst approved by the...
• Texas Section 2306.6706 - Additional Application Requirement: Nonprofit Set-aside Allocation
  (a) In addition to the information required by Section 2306.6705, an application for a housing tax credit allocation from the nonprofit set-aside, as defined by...
• Texas Section 2306.6707 - Additional Application Requirement: Disclosure Of Interested Persons
  (a) The applicant must disclose in the application the names of any persons, including affiliates of those persons and related parties, providing developmental or operational...
• Texas Section 2306.67071 - Additional Application Requirement: Notice, Hearing, And Resolution By Certain Governing Bodies
  (a) Before submitting to the department an application for housing tax credits for developments financed through the private activity bond program, including private activity bonds...
• Texas Section 2306.6708 - Application Changes Or Supplements
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an applicant may not change or supplement an application in any manner after the filing deadline. (b) This...
• Texas Section 2306.6709 - Application Log
  (a) In a form prescribed by the department, the department shall maintain for each application an application log that tracks the application from the date...
• Texas Section 2306.6710 - Evaluation And Underwriting Of Applications
  (a) In evaluating an application, the department shall determine whether the application satisfies the threshold criteria required by the board in the qualified allocation plan....
• Texas Section 2306.6711 - Allocation Of Housing Tax Credits
  (a) The director shall provide the application scores to the board before the 30th day preceding the date the board begins to issue commitments for...
• Texas Section 2306.6712 - Amendment Of Application Subsequent To Allocation By Board
  (a) If a proposed modification would materially alter a development approved for an allocation of a housing tax credit, the department shall require the applicant...
• Texas Section 2306.6713 - Housing Tax Credit And Ownership Transfers
  (a) An applicant may not transfer an allocation of housing tax credits or ownership of a development supported with an allocation of housing tax credits...
• Texas Section 2306.6714 - At-risk Development Set-aside
  (a) The department shall set aside for eligible at-risk developments not less than 15 percent of the housing tax credits available for allocation in the...
• Texas Section 2306.6715 - Appeal
  (a) In a form prescribed by the department in the qualified allocation plan, an applicant may appeal the following decisions made by the department in...
• Texas Section 2306.6716 - Fees
  (a) A fee charged by the department for filing an application may not be excessive and must reflect the department's actual costs in processing the...
• Texas Section 2306.6717 - Public Information And Hearings
  (a) Subject to Section 2306.67041, the department shall make the following items available on the department's website: (1) as soon as practicable, any proposed application...
• Texas Section 2306.67171 - Electronic Mail Notification Service
  (a) The department shall maintain an electronic mail notification service to which any person in this state may electronically subscribe to receive information concerning the...
• Texas Section 2306.6718 - Elected Officials
  (a) The department shall provide written notice of the filing of an application to the following elected officials: (1) members of the legislature who represent...
• Texas Section 2306.6719 - Monitoring Of Compliance
  (a) The department may contract with an independent third party to monitor a development during its construction or rehabilitation and during its operation for compliance...
• Texas Section 2306.6720 - Enforceability Of Applicant Representations
  Each material representation made by an applicant to secure a housing tax credit allocation is enforceable by the department and the tenants of the development...
• Texas Section 2306.6722 - Development Accessibility
  Any development supported with a housing tax credit allocation shall comply with the accessibility standards that are required under Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973...
• Texas Section 2306.6723 - Coordination With Rural Development Agency
  (a) The department shall jointly administer with the rural development agency any set-aside for rural areas to: (1) ensure the maximum use and optimum geographic...
• Texas Section 2306.6724 - Deadlines For Allocation Of Low Income Housing Tax Credits
  (a) Regardless of whether the board will adopt the plan annually or biennially, the department, not later than September 30 of the year preceding the...
• Texas Section 2306.6725 - Scoring Of Applications
  Sec. 2306.6725. SCORING OF APPLICATIONS. Text of subsection as amended by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 954 (S.B. 1316), Sec. 2 (a) In allocating...
• Texas Section 2306.6726 - Sale Of Certain Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments
  (a) An owner of a development subject to a right of first refusal under Section 2306.6725 who intends to sell the development at any time...
• Texas Section 2306.6727 - Department Purchase Of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Property
  The board by rule may develop and implement a program to purchase low income housing tax credit property that is not purchased by a qualified...
• Texas Section 2306.6728 - Department Policy And Procedures Regarding Recipients Of Certain Federal Housing Assistance
  (a) The department by rule shall adopt a policy regarding the admittance to low income housing tax credit properties of income-eligible individuals and families receiving...
• Texas Section 2306.6729 - Qualified Nonprofit Organization
  (a) A qualified nonprofit organization may compete in any low income housing tax credit allocation pool, including: (1) the nonprofit allocation pool; (2) the rural...
• Texas Section 2306.6730 - Accessibility Required
  A project to which a low income housing tax credit is allocated under this subchapter shall comply with the accessibility standards that are required under...
• Texas Section 2306.6731 - Allocation Decision; Reevaluation
  (a) Department staff shall provide written, documented recommendations to the board concerning the financial or programmatic viability of each application for a low income housing...
• Texas Section 2306.6733 - Representation By Former Board Member Or Other Person
  (a) A former board member or a former director, deputy director, director of housing programs, director of compliance, director of underwriting, or low income housing...
• Texas Section 2306.6734 - Minority-owned Businesses
  (a) The department shall require a person who receives an allocation of housing tax credits to attempt to ensure that at least 30 percent of...
• Texas Section 2306.6735 - Required Lease Agreement Provisions
  A lease agreement with a tenant in a development supported with a housing tax credit allocation must: (1) include any applicable federal or state standards...
• Texas Section 2306.6736 - Low Income Housing Tax Credits Financed Under American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009
  (a) To the extent the department receives federal funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. No. 111-5) or any subsequent...
• Texas Section 2306.6737 - Assistance From American Recovery And Reinvestment Act Of 2009
  If allowed by federal law, the department shall, under any federally funded program resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L....
• Texas Section 2306.6738 - Prohibited Practices
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a development owner of a development supported with a housing tax credit allocation may not: (1) lock out or threaten...
• Texas Section 2306.6739 - Housing Tax Credits Financed Using Federal Emergency Funds
  (a) To the extent the department receives federal emergency funds that must be awarded by the department in the same manner as and that are...

SUBCHAPTER FF OWNER-BUILDER LOAN PROGRAM

• Texas Section 2306.6740 - Designation Of Certain Areas As Rural
  (a) The department by rule shall provide for the designation by the department of an area located within the boundaries of a primary metropolitan statistical...
• Texas Section 2306.751 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "owner-builder" means a person, other than a person who owns or operates a construction business: (1) who: (A) owns or purchases a...
• Texas Section 2306.752 - Owner-builder Loan Program
  (a) To provide for the development of affordable housing in this state, the department, through the colonia self-help centers established under Subchapter Z or a...
• Texas Section 2306.753 - Owner-builder Eligibility
  (a) Subject to this section, the department shall establish eligibility requirements for an owner-builder to receive a loan under this subchapter. The eligibility requirements must...
• Texas Section 2306.754 - Amount Of Loan; Loan Terms
  (a) The department may establish the minimum amount of a loan under this subchapter, but a loan made by the department may not exceed $45,000....
• Texas Section 2306.755 - Nonprofit Owner-builder Housing Programs
  (a) The department may certify nonprofit owner-builder housing programs operated by a tax-exempt organization listed under Section 501(c)(3), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to: (1)...
• Texas Section 2306.756 - Owner-builder Education Classes
  (a) A state-certified nonprofit owner-builder housing program shall offer owner-builder education classes to potential owner-builders. A class under this section must provide information on: (1)...
• Texas Section 2306.757 - Loan Priority For Waiver Of Local Government Fees
  In making loans under this subchapter, the department shall give priority to loans to owner-builders who will reside in counties or municipalities that agree in...
• Texas Section 2306.758 - Funding
  (a) The department shall solicit gifts and grants to make loans under this subchapter. (b) The department may also make loans under this subchapter from:...

SUBCHAPTER GG COLONIA MODEL SUBDIVISION PROGRAM

• Texas Section 2306.7581 - Owner-builder Revolving Loan Fund
  (a) The department shall establish an owner-builder revolving loan fund in the department for the sole purpose of funding loans under this subchapter. (a-1) Each...
• Texas Section 2306.781 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "program" means the colonia model subdivision program established under this subchapter. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1367, Sec. 2.13, eff....
• Texas Section 2306.782 - Establishment Of Program
  The department shall establish the colonia model subdivision program to promote the development of new, high-quality, residential subdivisions that provide: (1) alternatives to substandard colonias;...
• Texas Section 2306.783 - Colonia Model Subdivision Revolving Loan Fund
  (a) The department shall establish a colonia model subdivision revolving loan fund in the department. Money in the fund may be used only for purposes...
• Texas Section 2306.784 - Subdivision Compliance
  Any subdivision created with assistance from the colonia model subdivision revolving loan fund must fully comply with all state and local laws, including any process...
• Texas Section 2306.785 - Program Loans
  (a) The department may make loans under the program only to: (1) colonia self-help centers established under Subchapter Z; and (2) community housing development organizations...

SUBCHAPTER HH AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION

• Texas Section 2306.786 - Administration Of Program; Rules
  (a) In administering the program, the department by rule shall adopt: (1) any subdivision standards in excess of local standards the department considers necessary; (2)...
• Texas Section 2306.801 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "federally subsidized" means receiving financial assistance through a federal program administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Secretary...
• Texas Section 2306.802 - Multifamily Housing Preservation Classes
  The department shall establish two classes of priorities of developments to preserve multifamily housing. The classes, in order of descending priority, are: (1) Class A,...
• Texas Section 2306.803 - At-risk Multifamily Housing: Identification, Prioritization, And Preservation
  (a) The department shall determine the name and location of and the number of units in each multifamily housing development that is at risk of...
• Texas Section 2306.804 - Use Of Housing Preservation Resources
  (a) To the extent possible, the department shall use available resources for the preservation and rehabilitation of the multifamily housing developments identified and listed under...

SUBCHAPTER II MULTIFAMILY HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS: PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABILITY

• Texas Section 2306.805 - Housing Preservation Incentives Program
  (a) The department shall establish and administer a housing preservation incentives program to provide incentives through loan guarantees, loans, and grants to political subdivisions, housing...
• Texas Section 2306.851 - Application
  (a) This subchapter applies only to a property owner of a multifamily housing development that is insured or assisted under a program under Section 8,...
• Texas Section 2306.852 - Property Owner Restriction
  Except as provided by this subchapter, a property owner to whom this subchapter applies may not sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of a multifamily housing...

SUBCHAPTER JJ TEXAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT

• Texas Section 2306.853 - Notice Of Intent
  (a) A property owner of a multifamily housing development may take an action, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the development subject to the restriction...
• Texas Section 2306.901 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "council" means the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.80(a), eff. Sept. 1,...
• Texas Section 2306.902 - Advisory Role
  (a) The Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless serves as an advisory committee to the department. The council may recommend policies to the board. The...
• Texas Section 2306.903 - Membership
  (a) The Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless is composed of: (1) one representative from each of the following agencies, appointed by the administrative head...
• Texas Section 2306.904 - Operation Of Council
  (a) The members of the council shall annually elect one member to serve as presiding officer. (b) The council shall meet at least quarterly. (c)...
• Texas Section 2306.905 - Duties Of Council
  (a) The council shall: (1) survey current resources for services for the homeless in this state; (2) initiate an evaluation of the current and future...
• Texas Section 2306.906 - Duties Of State Agency Council Members
  (a) Each agency represented on the council shall report to the department a standard set of performance data, as determined by the department, on the...
• Texas Section 2306.907 - Public Hearings
  (a) The council may hold, throughout the state, public hearings on homelessness issues. (b) The department shall provide to the secretary of state for publication...
• Texas Section 2306.908 - Report
  The council shall submit annually a progress report to the governing bodies of the agencies represented on the council. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 2306.909 - Gifts And Grants
  The council may accept gifts and grants from a public or private source for use in carrying out the council's duties under this subchapter. Added...
• Texas Section 2306.910 - Meeting By Teleconference
  Notwithstanding Chapter 551, a member of the council who resides 20 or more miles away from the location of a council meeting may participate remotely...
• Texas Section 2306.921 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Facility" means a structure, trailer, or vehicle, or two or more contiguous or grouped structures, trailers, or vehicles, together with the...
• Texas Section 2306.922 - License Required
  A person may not establish, maintain, or operate a migrant labor housing facility without obtaining a license from the department. Transferred from Health and Safety...
• Texas Section 2306.923 - License Application; Application Inspection
  (a) To receive a migrant labor housing facility license, a person must apply to the department according to rules adopted by the board and on...
• Texas Section 2306.924 - Inspection
  The department shall inspect the migrant labor housing facility not later than the 30th day after the date of receipt of a complete application and...
• Texas Section 2306.925 - Failure To Meet Standards; Reinspection
  (a) If a migrant labor housing facility for which a license application is made does not meet the reasonable minimum standards of construction, sanitation, equipment,...
• Texas Section 2306.926 - License Issuance; Term; Not Transferable
  (a) The department shall issue a license to establish, maintain, and operate a migrant labor housing facility if the facility meets the standards of construction,...
• Texas Section 2306.927 - License Posting
  A person who holds a license issued under this subchapter shall post the license in the migrant labor housing facility at all times during the...
• Texas Section 2306.928 - Inspection Of Facilities
  An authorized representative of the department, after giving or making a reasonable attempt to give notice to the operator of a migrant labor housing facility,...
• Texas Section 2306.929 - Fee
  The board shall set the license fee in an amount not to exceed $250. Transferred from Health and Safety Code, Chapter 147 and amended by...
• Texas Section 2306.930 - Suspension Or Revocation Of License
  (a) The department may suspend or revoke a license for a violation of this subchapter or a rule adopted under this subchapter. (b) Chapter 2001...
• Texas Section 2306.931 - Enforcement; Adoption Of Rules
  (a) The department shall enforce this subchapter. (b) The board shall adopt rules to protect the health and safety of persons living in migrant labor...
• Texas Section 2306.932 - Injunctive Relief
  (a) A district court for good cause shown in a hearing and on application by the department, a migrant agricultural worker, or the worker's representative...

SUBCHAPTER MM TEXAS FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYER PROGRAM

• Texas Section 2306.933 - Civil Penalty
  (a) A person who violates this subchapter or a rule adopted under this subchapter is subject to a civil penalty of $200 for each day...
• Texas Section 2306.1071 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: Text of subdivision as added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1341 (S.B. 1908), Sec. 2 (1) "First-time homebuyer" means a...
• Texas Section 2306.1072 - Texas First-time Homebuyer Program
  (a) The Texas First-Time Homebuyer Program shall facilitate the origination of single-family mortgage loans for eligible first-time homebuyers. (b) The program may include down payment...
• Texas Section 2306.1073 - Administration Of Program; Rules
  (a) The department shall administer the program. (b) The board shall adopt rules governing: (1) the administration of the program; (2) the making of loans...
• Texas Section 2306.1074 - Eligibility
  (a) To be eligible for a mortgage loan under this subchapter, a homebuyer must: (1) qualify as a first-time homebuyer under this subchapter; (2) have...
• Texas Section 2306.1075 - Fees
  The board of directors of the department may set and collect from each applicant any fees the board considers reasonable and necessary to cover the...

SUBCHAPTER NN HOUSING AND HEALTH SERVICES COORDINATION COUNCIL

• Texas Section 2306.1076 - Funding
  (a) The department shall ensure that a loan under this section is structured in a way that complies with any requirements associated with the source...
• Texas Section 2306.1091 - Definitions
  (a) In this subchapter, "council" means the housing and health services coordination council. (b) With the advice and assistance of the council, the department by...
• Texas Section 2306.1092 - Composition
  (a) The department shall establish a housing and health services coordination council. (b) The council is composed of 17 members consisting of: (1) the director;...
• Texas Section 2306.1093 - Terms
  (a) A member of the council who represents a state agency serves at the pleasure of the head of that agency. (b) Members of the...
• Texas Section 2306.1094 - Operation Of Council
  (a) The council shall meet at least quarterly. (b) The department shall provide clerical and advisory support staff to the council. (c) Except as provided...
• Texas Section 2306.1095 - Compensation And Reimbursement
  (a) A member of the council who is appointed by the governor may not receive compensation for service on the council. The member may receive...
• Texas Section 2306.1096 - Duties; Biennial Report
  (a) The council shall: (1) develop and implement policies to coordinate and increase state efforts to offer service-enriched housing; (2) identify barriers preventing or slowing...
• Texas Section 2306.1097 - Gifts And Grants
  The council may solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations for the purposes of this subchapter. Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 838...
• Texas Section 2306.1098 - Duties Of Employees Providing Advisory Support To Council
  Department employees assigned to provide advisory support to the council shall: (1) identify sources of funding from this state and the federal government that may...
• Texas Section 2306.1101 - Study On Homeless Veterans
  (a) The department, in conjunction with other members of the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless established under Subchapter KK, shall conduct a study and...
• Texas Section 2306.1101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "homeless youth" means a person who is younger than 19 years of age, including a migratory child, as defined by Section 1309,...
• Texas Section 2306.1102 - Study On Homeless Youth
  (a) The department, in conjunction with other members of the Texas Interagency Council for the Homeless established under Subchapter KK, shall conduct a study on...

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