Official Summary Text
SB 1322, as amended, Richardson.
Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund: tribal liaison.
Community Care Expansion Program.
Existing law establishes the Community Care Expansion Program, under the administration of the State Department of Social Services. Under the program, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the department awards grants to qualified grantees to administer projects for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of property to be operated as residential adult and senior care facilities, or to promote the sustainability of existing licensed residential adult and senior care facilities through the provision of capitalized operating subsidy reserves. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into an agreement with one or more entities to facilitate the grant awards. Existing law requires the contracting entity to act as a third-party administrator to provide operational services under the
contract, including, but not limited to, developing an online application portal and processing invoices and making grant payments.
This bill would revise and recast the department’s authorization to enter into an agreement with one or more entities to facilitate the grant application, awards, and implementation and require the department to be responsible for selected operational services previously done by a third-party administrator. If the grant is awarded to a tribe, the bill would require the department to administer the contract and award process directly with the tribal applicant and require the existing tribal liaison to be included throughout the grant process to ensure tribal sovereignty is honored. The bill would also require that an agreement between the department and a tribe align with federal tribal housing grant agreements.
Existing law requires, subject to an appropriation, the department to award grants to preserve or expand the capacity of residential adult and senior care facilities through the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of property and requires counties and tribes receiving funds for this purpose to provide matching funds or real property.
This bill would exempt a tribe from providing real property if federal restrictions limit tribal property ownership.
Existing law creates the Tribal Housing Grant Program Trust Fund, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. Existing law requires any moneys appropriated and made available by the Legislature through the annual Budget Act for purposes of the fund and 10% of any moneys that will be appropriated and made available by the Legislature to the department through the annual Budget Act for specified housing programs to be paid and deposited in the fund. Existing law requires the department to monitor the balance of the fund and, when the department determines that sufficient moneys are available in the fund, existing law requires the moneys in the fund to be allocated in accordance with a specified formula, as provided, and for specific purposes, including, among others, housing and housing-related program services for affordable housing, housing and community
development project costs, and management services for affordable housing for the benefit of eligible beneficiaries, including, among others, Indian and essential families and individuals residing in an Indian area, as specified.
Existing law requires the department, in close consultation with California tribes and a tribal housing grant program trust fund advisory committee, to adopt guidelines to implement the above-described provisions, including determining allocation methodologies.
This bill would require the department, in close consultation with California tribes and a tribal housing grant program trust fund advisory committee, to adopt guidelines for grant applications due after January 1, 2028, streamlining and aligning the grant application process with federal tribal grant application requirements. The bill would require the department to include a tribal liaison designated by the department in discussions with
tribes throughout the grant process to ensure that tribal sovereignty is honored.