2025 bills / H.B. 553
H.B. 553 State Grant Process Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill says that for direct award grants, the agency running the grant cannot use grant money to pay its own costs of administering it, unless the grant's appropriation language allows that. It also changes some reporting requirements for competitive grants and makes technical cleanup changes.
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Official description
- for direct award grants, prohibits an administering agency from using grant funds to administer the grant, unless otherwise provided in the grant appropriation's intent language
- modifies certain reporting requirements for competitive grants
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 553 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 553 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 74 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal House vote · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how