[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1515 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1515

  To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to treat 
    certain communities as metropolitan cities for purposes of the 
               community development block grant program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2007

  Mr. Costello (for himself and Mr. Shimkus) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to treat 
    certain communities as metropolitan cities for purposes of the 
               community development block grant program.

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

SECTION 1. METROPOLITAN CITIES.

    Paragraph (4) of section 102(a) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new sentence: ``Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this paragraph, with respect to any fiscal year beginning after the 
date of the enactment of this sentence, the cities of Alton and Granite 
City, Illinois, shall be considered metropolitan cities for purposes of 
this title.''.
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