California Government Code

§ 12087

GOV § 12087 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 3 · Title 2 · Part 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 8

Statute text

The department shall have the responsibility, and is hereby vested with all necessary powers and authority to do the following:

(a)Recognize existing community action agencies, as originally defined by Section 2790 of Title 42 of the United States Code in the federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and as superseded by Section 9902 of that title in the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-35), and as further defined in Article 6 (commencing with Section 12750) of Chapter 9 of Division 3 of Title 2, and Indian tribes or tribal organizations, as the operators of programs to serve the poor in local communities, and, where the programs are of a statewide or multicounty nature, other limited purpose agencies may be considered as program operators.

(b)Apply for, administer, and oversee federal block grant funds, including, but not limited to, the Community Services Block Grant and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and other public and private funds designed to support antipoverty programs in the state that are not currently administered by other departments, and define and enforce programmatic performance and fiscal accountability standards for those funds.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 50, Sec. 29. (AB 378) Effective January 1, 2022.