Section 420.36, Florida Statutes, establishes within the Department the Low-Income Emergency Home Repair Program for the purposes of assisting low-income persons, especially the disabled and elderly, in making emergency home repairs. Chapter 73C-25, ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Division of Community Development

RULE NOS.:RULE TITLES:

73C-25.004Grantee Eligibility

73C-25.005Distribution of Funds

73C-25.006Grantee Selection Process

73C-25.014Contracts and Amendments

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: Section 420.36, Florida Statutes, establishes within the Department the Low-Income Emergency Home Repair Program for the purposes of assisting low-income persons, especially the disabled and elderly, in making emergency home repairs. Chapter 73C-25, Fla. Admin. Code, implements this program by setting out the procedures for eligibility, funding, allowable expenditures, work standards, monitoring, and creation of a contractual grant agreement.

Rules 73C-25.004 and .005, F.A.C., which address funding eligibility and funding distribution, are being incorporated into Rule 73C-25.006, F.A.C., which implements procedures for selection and distribution of funding to selected grantees. Rules 73C-25.004 and .005, F.A.C. will be repealed. The purpose of this change is to include information about funding in the same rule.

Rule 73C-25.014, F.A.C., is being amended to delete subsections (2) and (3), which set forth information that is not necessary to implement Section 420.36, Florida Statutes.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: The information in Rules 73C-25.004 and .005, F.A.C., is being moved to Rule 73C-25.006, F.A.C., to create a single rule on the subject of funding. Rules 73C-25.004 and .005, F.A.C., will be repealed.

Rule 73C-25.014, F.A.C., is being amended to delete subsections (2) and (3) as the information therein is unnecessary to the implementation of Section 420.36, Florida Statutes.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: 420.36(5)(c), FS.

LAW IMPLEMENTED: 420.36, FS.

IF REQUESTED IN WRITING AND NOT DEEMED UNNECESSARY BY THE AGENCY HEAD, A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE NOTICED IN THE NEXT AVAILABLE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE REGISTER.

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: M. Linville Atkins, Office of General Counsel, Department of Economic Opportunity, 107 East Madison Street, MSC #110, Tallahassee, Florida 32399, [phone]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE FROM THE CONTACT PERSON LISTED ABOVE.