Bill Text: CA AB371 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 371

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Bill Title: Housing programs: tribal housing program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB371 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB371-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 371

Introduced by Assembly Member Garcia

February 01, 2023

An act relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 371, as introduced, Garcia. Housing programs: tribal housing program.

Existing law sets forth the general responsibilities and roles of the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the California Housing Finance Agency in carrying out state housing policies and programs. Existing law, the G. David Singleton California Indian Assistance Program, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide comprehensive technical assistance to tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians residing in these areas.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to modify or waive various requirements of any state financing being provided to a housing development by the department in specified situations, if tribal law, tribal governance, tribal charter, or difference in tribal entity or agency legal structure would cause a violation or not satisfy the requirements for the financing.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require the Department of Housing and Community Development to work to remove barriers that tribes encounter when trying to access grants provided by the department.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to require the Department of Housing and Community Development to work to remove barriers that tribes encounter when trying to access grants provided by the department.