(a) The department shall provide comprehensive technical assistance to tribal housing authorities, housing sponsors, and governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain to facilitate the planning and orderly development of suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians residing in those areas. This assistance may include technical assistance in land use planning, natural and environmental resource planning, and economic resource planning. Upon request of the governing body of a reservation or rancheria, the department may act on behalf of the tribal housing authority and perform the functions thereof and for those purposes shall have all the powers granted to housing authorities by Part 2 (commencing with Section 34200) of Division 13.

(b) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the G. David Singleton California Indian Assistance Program.

(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 660, Sec. 6. (AB 1010) Effective January 1, 2020.)