View Amendment Current Amendment: 21 to Bill 4025

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BILL NO: H.4025  (Reference is to Printer's Date 04/22/25-S.)

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 Senators CORBIN, PEELER, MASSEY, HEMBREE, BENNETT, TURNER and KIMBRELL propose the following amendment (AM GRANTS AND CONTRACTS):

 Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 117, GENERAL PROVISIONS, page 566, after line 27, by adding an appropriately numbered new proviso to read:

/ (GP: Third-Party Grants and Contracts) Each state agency receiving funds that are then awarded as a grant or contract to any third-party organization including, but not limited to, nonprofits, for-profit businesses, and local governments shall require from each recipient organization a plan of how the state funds will be spent and how the expenditures will provide a public benefit. Prior to disbursing funds to any organization subject to this proviso, the Chief Executive Officer, or their equivalent, and the Chairman of the governing board, or their equivalent, shall acknowledge, in writing, that they are subject to relevant civil and criminal penalties for misuse of these funds. They shall further acknowledge that records of funding awarded as a grant or contract from a state agency are subject to review by the Office of the Inspector General, State Auditor, and the contracting or granting agency. Each receiving entity shall be required to retain relevant records for five years. / 

 Renumber sections to conform.

 Amend sections, totals and title to conform.