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.)Click here to see the committee vote     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.     * * * * *