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Texas Legislature· HB 2564Effective on 9/1/25

Relating to the evaluation of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications, the official text

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H.B. No. 2564

AN ACT

relating to the evaluation of Defense Economic Adjustment

Assistance Grant applications.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 436.205, Government Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 436.205. [PANEL:] EVALUATION OF APPLICATION. [(a)

The commission shall establish a defense economic adjustment

assistance panel composed of at least three and not more than five

professional full-time employees of the office of the governor

appointed by the director of the commission.

[(b)] The commission [panel] shall evaluate each grant

application and assign the applicant a score based on:

(1) the significance of the adverse or positive effect

within the local governmental entity; and

(2) any other criteria established by the commission.

SECTION 2. Section 436.206, Government Code, is amended to

read as follows:

Sec. 436.206. MAKING OF GRANT. [The panel shall submit its

scores to the commission.] The commission shall use the scores

assigned under Section 436.205 to determine whether to make a grant

to an applicant. The commission may not make a grant unless the

legislature has appropriated the money for the grant.

SECTION 3. Section 436.001(6), Government Code, is

repealed.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________
______________________________

President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2564 was passed by the House on May 8,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2564 was passed by the Senate on May

22, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor
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