Government Code section 16482
(a)
Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any state agency that has entered into a grant agreement for the expenditure of state bond funds where the state agency or grant recipient is, or may be, unable to comply with the terms of that agreement because of the suspension of interim funding for projects and contracts by the Pooled Money Investment Board on or after December 18, 2008, shall, with the consent of the grant recipient, have authority to do either of the following:(1)
Renegotiate, modify, or eliminate the deadlines and timetables for deliverables within the grant agreement in order to address the suspension.(2)
Terminate the grant agreement if no grant funds have yet been delivered thereunder.(b)
Nothing in this section shall modify any act under which bonds are authorized to be issued or the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code).(c)
The authority granted under this section is supplemental and in addition to any other authority provided under law. Nothing in this section, in and of itself, modifies any existing grant agreement rights and obligations.
Source:
Section 16482, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=16482. (updated Oct. 11, 2009; accessed Jul. 14, 2025).
