[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 257 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 257

  To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow 
 small communities to use limited space in public facilities acquired, 
 constructed, or rehabilitated using community development block grant 
                  funds for local government offices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

Mr. Richardson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow 
 small communities to use limited space in public facilities acquired, 
 constructed, or rehabilitated using community development block grant 
                  funds for local government offices.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Communities CDBG Multipurpose 
Facilities Act''.

SEC. 2. CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    Section 105(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``(except for buildings 
        for the general conduct of government) and inserting the 
        following: ``(not including buildings for the general conduct 
        of government, except that a portion of a public facility 
        assisted under this paragraph may be used for the types of 
        activities conducted in buildings for the general conduct of 
        government, but only if not more than 25 percent of the square 
        footage of the facility is so used and such activities are 
        conducted for a unit of general local government having a 
        population not exceeding 5,000)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (14), by striking ``(except for buildings 
        for the general conduct of government) and inserting the 
        following: ``(not including buildings for the general conduct 
        of government, except that a portion of a public facility 
        assisted under this clause may be used for the types of 
        activities conducted in buildings for the general conduct of 
        government, but only if not more than 25 percent of the square 
        footage of the facility is so used and such activities are 
        conducted for a unit of general local government having a 
        population not exceeding 5,000)''.

SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply with respect to use of 
a portion of a public facility for the types of activities conducted in 
buildings for the general conduct of government occurring after June 
30, 1995.
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