Bill Text: CA AB325 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Community Development Block Grant Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 397, Statutes of 2015. [AB325 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB325-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 325	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  397
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 1, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 1, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 13, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2015

   An act to add Section 50832.2 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to economic development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 325, Wood. Community Development Block Grant Program.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to allocate funds under the federal Community Development
Block Grant Program to cities and counties. Existing law requires
the department to determine and announce, in the applicable Notice of
Funding Availability, the maximum amount of grant funds that may be
used for economic development projects and programs, housing for
persons and families of low or moderate income or for purposes
directly related to the provision or improvement of housing
opportunities for these persons and families, and for cities and
counties that apply on behalf of certain Indian tribes. Existing law
requires the department to develop and use certain eligibility
criteria and requirements for certain economic development fund
applications.
   This bill would require the department, no later than 60 days,
except as specified, after the department notifies an applicant that
the department has approved the applicant's application for those
grant funds, to provide a grant agreement to the applicant. The bill
would require the department, when the department enters into a grant
agreement with an applicant, to provide the applicant with a
complete and final list of activities the applicant must complete in
order to receive a disbursement of funds pursuant to the agreement.
The bill would authorize the department to make changes to the final
list of activities if the applicant makes changes to the original
application or the federal government or the Legislature requires
changes. The bill would also require the department, no later than 30
days after receiving a grantee's request for disbursement of funds,
to notify the grantee that the department has approved disbursement
or to provide the grantee with a complete and final list of all of
the remaining activities the grantee must complete, as specified.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 50832.2 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   50832.2.  (a) (1) No later than 60 days after the department
notifies an applicant that the department has approved the applicant'
s application for funds pursuant to this chapter, the department
shall provide a grant agreement to the applicant. The 60 days' notice
requirement shall not apply if the federal government or the
Legislature makes significant changes to the Community Development
Block Grant Program.
   (2) When the department enters into a grant agreement with an
applicant, the department shall provide the applicant with a complete
and final list of all of the activities the applicant must complete
in order to receive a disbursement of funds pursuant to the
agreement. The department may make appropriate and corresponding
changes to the complete and final list of activities if the applicant
makes changes to the original application or the federal government
or the Legislature requires changes.
   (b) No later than 30 days after the department receives a request
for the disbursement of funds from a grantee, the department shall
take either of the following actions:
   (1) Notify the grantee that the department has approved
disbursement of the funds.
   (2) Provide the applicant with a complete and final list of all of
the remaining activities the applicant must complete in order for
the department to approve disbursement of the funds.