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Committee holds hearing on DCA-managed blight fund; seeks more detail before advancing
Summary
The committee held a hearing on House Bill 753, which would authorize a DCA-administered "Better Georgia Without Blight Fund" using existing grant funds to support local blight remediation. Members raised property-rights, fiscal-note and staffing questions and asked DCA for follow-up before advancing the bill.
Representative Berry presented House Bill 753, a proposal to establish the "Better Georgia Without Blight Fund," which would authorize the Department of Community Affairs to apply existing grants or other non–general-fund sources to county and local blight-rehabilitation efforts. Berry said the bill would not create a new general-fund appropriation and would rely on existing funding sources and grant applications rather than drawing on the state’s general fund.
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