(a) (1) The Excess Sites Local Government Matching Grants Program is hereby established for the purpose of providing selected developers with one-time grants for development activities to enable development on excess state-owned property.

(2) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be allocated under the program in accordance with this chapter.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 50704.81

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23

(b) The department shall administer the program and, consistent with the requirements of this chapter, award grants to selected developers for predevelopment and development costs to accelerate housing production on excess state-owned properties, and to match local government contributions for predevelopment and development costs for selected developers.

(c) Of the total amount of any moneys appropriated under this chapter, the department shall set aside up to 5 percent for program administration, including state operations expenditures and technical assistance.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 111, Sec. 22. (AB 140) Effective July 19, 2021.)