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  By: Collier, Alvarado, Bernal H.B. No. 3535
        (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez)
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2015;
  May 13, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 21, 2015, reported adversely,
  with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
  Nays 1; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3535 By:  Menéndez
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to low income housing tax credits awarded for certain
  developments.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2306.6711, Government Code, is amended
  by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
         (g)  Except as necessary to comply with the nonprofit
  set-aside required by Section 42(h)(5), Internal Revenue Code of
  1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 42(h)(5)), in an urban subregion of a
  uniform state service region that contains a county with a
  population of more than 1,700,000, the board shall allocate housing
  tax credits to:
               (1)  the highest scoring development, if any, that is
  part of a concerted plan of revitalization and is located in that
  urban subregion in a municipality with a population of 500,000 or
  more; and
               (2)  the highest scoring development, if any, that is
  located in the census tract with the lowest percentage of poverty in
  that urban subregion, as determined by the department.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the allocation of low income housing tax credits for an
  application cycle that begins on or after January 1, 2017. The
  allocation of low income housing tax credits for an application
  cycle that begins before January 1, 2017, is governed by the law in
  effect on the date the application cycle began, and the former law
  is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
 
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