[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1315 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1315

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to eliminate 
 the fiscal year limitation on the cap on the percentage of community 
 development block grant funds received by the City and County of Los 
Angeles, California, that may be used to provide public services and to 
  provide that all communities in the County of Los Angeles receiving 
 such block grant funds may use the same percentage of such amounts to 
     provide public services as the City and County of Los Angeles.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 1999

  Mr. Dreier 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 eliminate 
 the fiscal year limitation on the cap on the percentage of community 
 development block grant funds received by the City and County of Los 
Angeles, California, that may be used to provide public services and to 
  provide that all communities in the County of Los Angeles receiving 
 such block grant funds may use the same percentage of such amounts to 
     provide public services as the City and County of Los Angeles.

    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 ``Public Services Flexibility Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC SERVICES CAP.

    Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(8)) is amended by striking ``in each of fiscal 
years 1993'' and all that follows through ``unit of general local 
government'' and inserting the following: ``in any fiscal year to the 
City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, or any other unit of 
general local government located in the County of Los Angeles, such 
city, such county, or each such unit of general local government, 
respectively,''.
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