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Abbott Appoints Four to Joint Interim Committee to Study Land Banks
Gov. Greg Abbott recently appointed Leslie Bingham, Anna Maria Farías, Ernest Richards and Carl Pankratz to the Joint Interim Committee to Study Land Banks. Their terms of appointment will expire on September 1, 2023, when state law requires the committee to be abolished.
Created by the 87th Texas Legislature, the committee is tasked with studying the powers of land banks to acquire and dispose of real property, the impact of land banks affordable housing, and the funding mechanisms of land banks.
The governor has designated Leslie Bingham as the committee’s presiding officer. Bingham is chief executive officer of the Valley Baptist Medical Center Brownsville, where she oversees the operations of the hospital and its related entities in the community. She previously served from 2013 to 2021 on the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs.
- ◦Policy/Gov't
