Local shared services grants, regional affordable housing grants, grants for certain kinds of redevelopment, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

This bill creates two grant programs under which local governmental units may obtain financing for costs related to planning and operating certain shared service agreements. Under the shared services planning and operation grant program, the Department of Administration provides grants to applicant political subdivisions to finance the costs of planning and operating shared service agreements. These agreements must involve at least two political subdivisions jointly providing a service. Under the shared mass transit service grant program, the Department of Transportation provides grants to local public bodies to finance the costs of planning and operating shared mass transit agreements. These agreements must involve at least two local public bodies and must expand mass transit service within or between the political subdivisions in which the local public bodies are located. Local public bodies under the bill include political subdivisions, agencies of political subdivisions, and other public bodies that provide mass transit services.

The bill also creates a grant program under which DOA may award grants to political subdivisions to do the following:

Who's behind it

6 senators are its authors⁠. All 6 are Democrats.

18 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.