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IN SB0302
Bill
AI Summary
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Amends IC 4-3-24-5 to define "maintenance of effort" as state expenditures to maintain a specified level of financial effort or state actions, including regulatory actions, to maintain a specified level of action.
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Prohibits state agencies from participating in federal grant opportunities without prior approval from the office.
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Prevents state agencies, state employees, or agents acting on behalf of the state from entering into agreements (including cost-sharing agreements or grants) that impose explicit or implied maintenance of effort requirements on the state after June 30, 2017, without express prior consent from the general assembly.
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Requires any general assembly consent for maintenance of effort obligations to be included in either a resolution or an act enacted by the general assembly.
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Becomes effective July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Maintenance of effort requirements for receipt of federal grants. Provides that a state agency, a state employee, or an agent acting on behalf of the state may not enter into any agreement that obligates the state to any maintenance of effort requirements, in connection with the receipt of federal grants or the entering into of a cost-sharing agreement, without the express prior consent of the general assembly that is included in a resolution adopted by the general assembly or an act enacted by the general assembly.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations
1/9/2017