2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB2564
HB2564 puts evaluation and scoring of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications directly with the Texas Military Preparedness Commission.
Official caption: Relating to the evaluation of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications.
Official report lists House author(s): Wilson. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
Selected points from the published explanation. Follow each point to its source-linked context; conditions and limits may matter.
- HB2564 puts evaluation and scoring of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications directly with the Texas Military Preparedness Commission.
- The scoring basis remains the significance of the adverse or positive effect within the applicant’s local governmental entity, plus other criteria established by the commission.
- The existing program serves eligible defense-community local governmental entities and certain related public institutions and authorities affected by Defense Department changes to jobs or facilities.
What does it do?
HB2564 puts evaluation and scoring of Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant applications directly with the Texas Military Preparedness Commission. It removes the requirement for a separate panel of three to five full-time governor’s-office employees appointed by the commission’s director. The commission now both assigns scores and uses them when deciding whether to award a grant. Final law, Sections 1–2.
The scoring basis remains the significance of the adverse or positive effect within the applicant’s local governmental entity, plus other criteria established by the commission. The act repeals the obsolete definition of the panel and took effect September 1, 2025. It does not abolish the commission or the grant program. Final law, Sections 1–4; history.
The existing program serves eligible defense-community local governmental entities and certain related public institutions and authorities affected by Defense Department changes to jobs or facilities. It supports qualifying infrastructure, property and other authorized projects. HB2564 changes the reviewing body, not those eligibility or permitted-use rules, and awards still require legislative appropriations. It neither gives every applicant a grant nor appropriates new grant money itself. Existing eligibility; grant purposes; permitted uses; final law.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill proposed shifting scoring from the panel to commissioners. The House committee substitute also revised the definitions and grant-making provision to remove the panel’s role. These were proposal stages, not yet the final wording. Introduced; House substitute.
The amendment index lists one amendment, offered by Wilson and adopted May 7, 2025. It replaced everything below the enacting clause with the four-section text that became law: scoring by the commission, an express link between those scores and grant decisions, repeal of the panel definition, and the September 1 effective date. It retained the appropriation requirement and existing scoring factors. The engrossed, Senate and enrolled texts carry this amendment’s substance without further policy changes. Complete amendment; disposition; engrossed; Senate printing; text index.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
Applicants deal with a process in which the commission has direct responsibility for evaluation and awards, while the separate statutory staff-panel step disappears. Commissioners take on the scoring duty. The law does not establish that decisions will be faster, that a community’s score will improve or that any particular military facility will remain open. Final law.
The Legislative Budget Board’s May 18, 2025 engrossed fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local-government fiscal implication, citing the governor’s office’s assessment. The March 21 introduced and April 19 substitute notes reach the same conclusion. They do not quantify administrative savings or provide a new grant appropriation. Engrossed fiscal note; introduced note; substitute note.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
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