FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST SESSION, 2023

 

March 1, 2023

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your TAXATION & REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 389

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

1. On page 2, line 17, through page 4, line 25, strike

Subsection C in its entirety and insert in lieu thereof the

following new subsection:

 

         "C. As used in this section, "homeless individual" means an individual:

 

              (1) who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, including an individual who:

 

                   (a) lives in the housing of another person due to that individual's loss of housing, economic hardship or other reason related to that individual's lack of a fixed residence;

 

 

                   (b) lives in a motel, hotel, trailer park or camping ground due to the lack of alternative adequate

accommodations;

 

                   (c) lives in an emergency or transitional

shelter;

 

                   (d) sleeps in a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings; or

 

                   (e) lives in an automobile, a park, a public space, an abandoned building, substandard housing, a bus station, a train station or a similar setting; and

 

              (2) whose homelessness can be verified through an attestation, which shall not be required to be notarized, by one of the following:

 

                   (a) a public or private governmental or nonprofit agency that provides services to homeless individuals;

 

                   (b) a local education agency homeless liaison, school counselor or school nurse;

 

                   (c) a social worker licensed in the state; or

 

                   (d) the homeless individual."".

 

 

                             

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

DERRICK LENTE, CHAIR

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 11 For 0 Against

Yes:      11

No:       0

Excused:  Borrego, Castellano, Martínez, J.

Absent:   None

 

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