[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2850 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2850

To permit the use of Federal funds from the Community Development Block 
 Grant Program to be used to remediate damage from the installation of 
                tainted drywall, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 8, 2009

  Mr. Vitter introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To permit the use of Federal funds from the Community Development Block 
 Grant Program to be used to remediate damage from the installation of 
                tainted drywall, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Chinese Drywall Homeowners 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO REMEDIATE DAMAGE DONE BY TAINTED 
              DRYWALL.

    (a) Road Home Program.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any Federal funds provided to the Road Home Program created by the 
Louisiana Recovery Authority and funded by amounts made available to 
the State of Louisiana from the community development block grant 
program under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) may be used to provide any resident of 
the State of Louisiana, whether a participant or nonparticipant in the 
Road Home Program, with such monetary assistance as may be necessary to 
repair or replace tainted drywall.
    (b) CDBG Amounts.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
including any provision under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development may permit any State or unit of general 
local government receiving assistance pursuant to section 106 of such 
Act to use such assistance to provide homeowners residing in such State 
or unit of general local government with such monetary assistance as 
may be necessary to repair or replace tainted drywall.
    (c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term ``tainted 
drywall'' means drywall that--
            (1) was manufactured in the People's Republic of China;
            (2) was imported into the United States during the period 
        beginning on January 1, 2004, and ending on December 31, 2008; 
        and
            (3) contains elevated levels of sulphur or strontium.
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