AB 1713: Local agencies: federal funds: reports.

(1)Existing law generally imposes various reporting duties on entities that receive state and federal funds, including, among others, requiring each state agency, department, and entity to provide its employer identification number to the Treasurer.

This bill would require a local agency that receives federal funds that are subject to an expiration date date, and recurrently and persistently fails to spend a substantial amount of those funds by the expiration date, as provided, to submit a written report to the local agencys legislative body no later than one year before after the funding expiration date with a summary of how funds have been expended and a plan for the remaining funds to be expended if, at that time, at least 50% of federal funds have yet to be expended. an enumeration of the amount of funds returned, a summary of the reasons the funds were returned, and an analysis of policy or operational changes required to ensure that relevant federal funds are spent timely in the future. The bill would require the local agencys legislative body to include the report on the agenda of a public meeting. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would apply these provisions to specified types of grants, and only where the local agency returns at least $10,000,000 from a single federal allocation.

(2)The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.