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Amend CSSB 1 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the bill and renumbering subsequent ARTICLES of the bill accordingly:
ARTICLE ____. FEDERAL FUNDS DESIGNATION.
SECTION ____.01. Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 418.187 to read as follows:
Sec. 418.187. FEDERAL FUNDS DESIGNATION. (a) The governor shall designate an agency or agencies, under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (Pub.L. No. 97-35) and 24 CFR, Part 570, Subpart I, to administer the state's allocation of federal funds provided under the community development block grant nonentitlement program authorized by Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. (42 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq.).
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the governor retains his authority to designate any agency or agencies to administer all non-entitlement federal community development block grant program funds and federal community development block grant disaster recovery funds and to transfer such federal funds to any agency.
SECTION ____.02. The following sections are repealed:
(1) Section 487.051(a)(6), Government Code; and
(2) Subchapter I, Chapter 487, Government Code.