SECTIONS 12735-12738 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 12735-12738

12735. (a) The Governor shall submit an application containing the
assurances and certification required under Section 12736 to the
secretary in any form the secretary may require pursuant to Section
9908 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended.
(b) Since under the terms of Section 9901 et seq. of Title 42 of
the United States Code, as amended, the secretary may not prescribe
the manner in which states shall comply with the provisions set forth
in subdivision (a), it is the intent of the Legislature that
California's manner of compliance shall be controlled in the first
instance by this chapter, and further by the state plan and any
regulations that may be promulgated by the department, pursuant to
the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with
Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter
4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 11500) of Division 2 of Title 3.
(c) The state administering agency for the California Community
Services Block Grant Program shall be the Department of Community
Services and Development.

12736. For the purposes of Section 12735, the application shall
contain assurance and certification that the state shall comply with
all of the items listed below. The application shall include
information as to how each assurance will be carried out.
(a) Conduct legislative hearings on the proposed use and
distribution of Community Services Block Grant funds prior to the
submission of each application.
(b) Use Community Services Block Grant funds as provided in
Section 12745.
(c) Use not less than 90 percent of the Community Services Block
Grant funds allotted to the state to make grants to eligible entities
that meet the provisions of Section 9901 et seq. of Title 42 of the
United States Code, as amended.
(d) Expend not more than 5 percent of the state's allotment for
administrative costs at the state level.
(e) Assure that any community action agency or migrant and
seasonal farmworker organization that received financial assistance
in the previous fiscal year under this chapter shall not have its
present or future financial assistance terminated pursuant to this
chapter unless, after notice and opportunity for hearing on the
record, the department determines that cause existed for the
termination, subject to review by the secretary, as provided in
Sections 9908 and 9915 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as
amended.
(f) Give special consideration, as defined in Section 9909(b) of
Title 42 of the United States Code, in the designation of local
community action agencies to any community action agency that was
receiving funds under any federal antipoverty program on the date of
the enactment of federal Public Law 97-35, except that the state
shall, before giving special consideration, determine that the agency
involved meets program and fiscal requirements established by the
state. If there is no such agency because of any change in the
assistance furnished to programs for economically disadvantaged
persons, the state shall give special consideration in the
designation of community action agencies to any successor agency that
is operated in substantially the same manner as the predecessor
agency that did receive funds in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal
year for which the determination is made.
(g) Decline to avail itself of permission to transfer Community
Services Block Grant funds, not to exceed 5 percent of the state's
allotment, to other specified programs.
(h) Prohibit any political activities in accordance with Section
9918 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended.
(i) Prohibit any activities to provide voters and prospective
voters with transportation to the polls or provide similar assistance
in connection with an election or any voter registration activity.
(j) Prohibit the use of funds in accordance with Section 9920(c)
of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended, and as further
defined in Part 87 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as
amended.
(k) Provide for coordination between antipoverty programs in each
community, where appropriate, with emergency energy crisis
intervention programs under Title XXVI of federal Public Law 97-35,
as amended, (relating to low-income home energy assistance) conducted
in that community.
(l) Provide that fiscal control and fund accounting procedures
will be established as may be necessary to assure the proper
disbursal of and accounting for federal funds paid to the state under
this chapter, including procedures for monitoring the assistance
provided under this chapter, and provide that at least every year the
state shall prepare, in accordance with Public Law 98-502 (Single
Audit Act of 1984), as amended, an audit of expenditures under this
chapter of amounts received under the Community Services Block Grant
and amounts transferred to carry out the purposes of the Community
Services Block Grant.
(m) Permit and cooperate with federal investigations undertaken in
accordance with Public Law 97-35, as amended.

12738. In addition to the general powers vested in the Department
of Community Services and Development by Section 12087, the
department may promulgate regulations, make grants, and enter into
contracts as necessary and appropriate to carry out its
responsibilities under this chapter.