Sec. 394.016.  AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.  (a)  The articles of incorporation may be amended at any time in the manner provided by this section.
(b)  The board of directors of the housing finance corporation may file a written application with the governing body of the local government requesting permission to amend the articles and specifying the proposed amendment.  The governing body shall consider the application.  If the governing body by resolution determines that the making of an amendment is wise, expedient, necessary, or advisable, authorizes the amendment, and approves the form of the amendment the board of directors may amend the articles by adopting the amendment at a meeting and delivering articles of amendment to the secretary of state.
(c)  At a meeting, the governing body in its sole discretion may amend the articles of incorporation to change the structure, organization, programs, or activities of the housing finance corporation, including the power to terminate the corporation, subject to any limitation on the impairment of contracts.  The governing body shall deliver the articles of amendment to the secretary of state.
(d)  The articles of amendment must be executed in duplicate.  The president or vice-president of the housing finance corporation and the secretary or assistant secretary of the corporation must execute articles of amendment adopted by the board of directors.  The presiding officer of the governing body of the local government and the local government's secretary or clerk must execute articles of amendment adopted by the governing body.  The articles of amendment must be verified by one of the officers signing the articles.  The articles of amendment must contain:
(1)  the name of the corporation;
(2)  if the amendment alters an original or amended provision of the articles of incorporation, an identification by reference to or description of the altered provision and a statement of the text as amended;
(3)  if the amendment is an addition to the original or amended articles of incorporation, a statement of that fact and the full text of the added provision;  and
(4)  the date of the meeting of the board of directors or the governing body at which the amendment was adopted and a statement that the amendment received a majority vote of the corporation's directors or the governing body's members in office.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.