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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 325	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	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, as amended, Wood. Community Development Block Grant
Program: funds.
   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
 from when the department receives an economic development
fund application, to inform the applicant of the decision to approve
or deny the application and the reasons for a denial of this
application.   after the department notifies an
applicant that the department has approved the applicant's
application for those grant funds, to enter into a grant agreement
with 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 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. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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 enter into a grant agreement with the applicant.
   (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.
   (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.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 50832.2 is added to the
Health and Safety Code, to read:
   50832.2.  The department shall, no later than 60 days from when
the department receives an application for funds for economic
development projects and programs, inform an applicant of the
decision to approve or deny an application for these funds and the
reasons for a denial of the application.