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Senate panel advances bill to modernize Tony Grama Youth Services program
Summary
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee advanced Senate Bill 197, which updates administration, reporting and matching rules for the Tony Grama Youth Services (TGYS) grant program and aims to expand access for smaller, grassroots nonprofit youth providers.
Senate Bill 197, which sponsors said modernizes the Tony Grama Youth Services grant program, advanced from the Senate Health and Human Services Committee to the Committee on Appropriations after the panel adopted two cleanup amendments.
The bill reorganizes existing statutory language, consolidates multiple TGYS funding streams into one fund and changes board responsibilities so that department staff — rather than the volunteer TGYS board — would perform many administrative tasks. Sponsors and multiple witnesses testifying in support said those changes are intended to reduce application and reporting burdens on small, community-based organizations and to expand access…
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