By: Collier (Senate Sponsor - Menéndez)	H.B. No. 3574
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2017;
	May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Intergovernmental Relations; May 22, 2017, reported adversely,
	with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
	Nays 3; May 22, 2017, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3574	By:  Menéndez

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  SECTION 1.  Section 2306.6710(a), Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(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.
	Educational Quality may be considered by the department as part of
	the threshold criteria but shall not be considered by the
	department as a scoring factor.  The department shall reject and
	return to the applicant any application that fails to satisfy the
	threshold criteria.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act expires on
	August 31, 2019, and thereafter reverts to the law in effect prior
	to the enactment of these changes.  This change applies only to an
	application for low income housing tax credits that is submitted to
	the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs during an
	application cycle that is based on the 2018 qualified allocation
	plan or a subsequent plan adopted by the governing board of the
	department under Section 2306.67022, Government Code. An
	application that is submitted during an application cycle that is
	based on an earlier qualified allocation plan 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.  Not later than September 1, 2019, the department
	shall report the outcome of considering Education Quality in
	threshold and not as a scoring factor in an application
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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