HB 1709 Summary

• Authorizes designated expending agencies for grants to delegate their expending authority to different agencies with approval from the Governor, original agency, and grant recipient.

• Requires the Governor to notify the legislature within five days of approving any delegation of expending authority.

• Requires the Department of Budget and Finance to submit an annual report to the legislature no later than twenty days before each regular session beginning in 2019, detailing the status of all grants awarded during the previous fiscal year and pending grants from prior years.

• Annual grant status report must include whether funds have been released by the Governor, contracts executed by the expending agency, funds received by the recipient, and reasons for any unreleased grants.

• Repeals the requirement that the Governor notify grant recipients quarterly about the status of unreleased grants after ninety days.