[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2460 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2460

 To amend the Community Services Block Grant Act to redefine the term 
                          ``eligible entity''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 11, 1995

 Mr. Barton of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
       to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Community Services Block Grant Act to redefine the term 
                          ``eligible entity''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DEFINITION OF ELIGIBLE ENTITY.

    Section 673(1) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 
9902(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(1) The term `eligible entity' means'' 
        and all that follows through ``Public Law 98-139 made a grant 
        under this Act in fiscal year 1984.'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1)(A) The term `eligible entity' means a community based 
        and operated program--
                    ``(i) which mobilizes and utilizes resources, 
                public or private, of any urban or rural, or combined 
                urban and rural, geographical area (referred to this 
                part as a `community', including but not limited to a 
                State, metropolitan area, county, city, town, multicity 
                unit, or multicounty unit in an attack on poverty;
                    ``(ii) which provides services, assistance, and 
                other activities of sufficient scope and size to give 
                promise of progress toward elimination of poverty or a 
                cause or cause of poverty through developing employment 
                opportunities, improving human performance, motivation, 
                and productivity, or bettering the conditions under 
                which people live, learn, and work;
                    ``(iii) which is developed, conducted, and 
                administered with the maximum feasible participation of 
                residents of the areas and members of the groups 
                served; and
                    ``(iv) which is conducted, administered, or 
                coordinated by a public or private nonprofit agency 
                (other than a political party), or combination 
                thereof.''; and
            (2) by inserting ``(B)'' before the text beginning with 
        ``If any geographic area'' and aligning such text as a 
        subparagraph below subparagraph (A) (as inserted by paragraph 
        (1)) and in that text by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 
        and (C) as clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively.
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