[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2805 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2805

 To allow the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai to distribute grant 
   funds received under section 106(d) of the Housing and Community 
            Development Act of 1974, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 2003

   Mr. Case introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To allow the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai to distribute grant 
   funds received under section 106(d) of the Housing and Community 
            Development Act of 1974, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. ELECTION BY UNITS OF GENERAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO DISTRIBUTE 
              GRANT FUNDS.

    (a) In General.--Section 106(d)(2) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(d)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking clause (ii) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(ii) by the Secretary, to units of general local 
        government located in any nonentitlement area of a State that 
        has not elected to distribute such funds as of December 31, 
        2003.''; and
                    (B) by adding after the period at the end of the 
                such subparagraph the following: ``Any State that does 
                not elect to distribute amounts allocated under 
                paragraph (1) as of December 31, 2003 shall have any 
                amounts allocated under this Act distributed by the 
                Secretary to units of general local government 
                described in subparagraph (A)(ii), and such States may 
                not elect to distribute amounts after that date.''; and
            (2) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(B)(i) The Secretary shall distribute amounts allocated under 
paragraph (1) to units of general local government of a State, as 
described in subparagraph (A)(ii), in accordance with a formula which 
bears the same ratio to the total amount available for the 
nonentitlement area of the State as the weighted average of the ratios 
between--
            ``(I) the population of that eligible unit of general local 
        government and the population of all eligible units of general 
        local government in the nonentitlement areas of the State;
            ``(II) the extent of poverty in that eligible unit of 
        general local government and the extent of poverty in all of 
        the eligible units of general local government in the 
        nonentitlement areas of the State; and
            ``(III) the extent of housing overcrowding in that eligible 
        unit of general local government and the extent of housing 
        overcrowding in all of the eligible units of general local 
        government in the nonentitlement areas of the State.
    ``(ii) In determining the weighted average of the ratios described 
in clause (i)--
            ``(I) the ratio described in clause (i)(II) shall be 
        counted twice; and
            ``(II) the ratios described in subclauses (I) and (III) of 
        clause (i) shall be counted once.
    ``(iii) Any unit of general local government qualifying under 
subparagraph (A)(ii) shall manage its program in accordance with the 
statutes and regulations applicable to metropolitan cities and urban 
counties.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--The Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 102(a)(6), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                    ``(F) Units of general local government described 
                under section 106(d)(2)(A)(ii).''; and
            (2) in section 106(d)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and 
                        (D) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph 
                (7); and
                    (C) in the second paragraph designated as paragraph 
                (5), as added by section 106(i) of the Act making 
                supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
                September 30, 1984, and for other purposes, approved 
                November 30, 1983--
                            (i) by striking ``(5) No amount'' and 
                        inserting ``(6) No amount''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``or the Secretary''.
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