Bill Text: TX HB3513 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a grant program for certain nonprofit organizations to distribute diapers to families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Human Services [HB3513 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3513-Introduced.html
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By: Howard | H.B. No. 3513 |
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relating to a grant program for certain nonprofit organizations to | ||
distribute diapers to families. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 531.024142 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 531.024142. DIAPER DISTRIBUTION GRANT PROGRAM. (a) | ||
In this section, "nonprofit organization" means an organization | ||
that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(a), | ||
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed as an exempt entity | ||
under Section 501(c)(3) of that code. | ||
(b) The commission shall establish and administer a program | ||
through which the commission, using money appropriated or otherwise | ||
available for that purpose, may award a grant to nonprofit | ||
organizations that collect, store, and distribute diapers to | ||
families to enable the nonprofit organizations to develop new | ||
infrastructure and expand services to more families in the state. | ||
(c) To be considered for a grant under this section, a | ||
nonprofit organization must: | ||
(1) have experience distributing a large number of | ||
diapers to families in this state; | ||
(2) have sufficient warehouse space to store at least | ||
400,000 diapers; | ||
(3) work with at least 25 entities in the target | ||
community to distribute diapers; | ||
(4) demonstrate an ability to expand the | ||
organization's distribution; and | ||
(5) have sufficient personnel available to distribute | ||
at least one million diapers in this state in a year. | ||
(d) The commission shall establish: | ||
(1) grant application procedures; and | ||
(2) procedures for monitoring the use of a grant | ||
awarded under the program and ensuring compliance with any | ||
condition of a grant. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |