[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2532 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2532

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase 
   the limitation on the amount of community development block grant 
        assistance that may be used to provide public services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2009

   Mr. Paul 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 increase 
   the limitation on the amount of community development block grant 
        assistance that may be used to provide public services.

    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 ``Community Development Block Grant 
Improvement Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES CAP.

    Paragraph (8) of section 105(a) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(8)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``15 per centum'' each place such term 
        appears and inserting ``50 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``unless such unit'' and all that follows 
        through ``yields the higher amount''.
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