[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1359 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1359

 To amend section 105 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
  1974 to temporarily increase the limit on the portion of community 
 development block grants amounts for certain entitlement communities 
                 that may be used for public services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 4, 2011

 Ms. Ros-Lehtinen (for herself, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Rivera, Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz, and Mr. Diaz-Balart) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 105 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
  1974 to temporarily increase the limit on the portion of community 
 development block grants amounts for certain entitlement communities 
                 that may be used for 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 ``Temporary CDBG Public Services 
Flexibility Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN 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 ``and'' after ``paragraph,''; and
            (2) by inserting before the semicolon at the end the 
        following: ``, and except that, of any amount of assistance 
        under this title (including program income) in each of fiscal 
        years 2011 and 2012 to any unit of general local government 
        that, based on information of the United States Bureau of the 
        Census for 2009, has a population exceeding 250,000 but not 
        exceeding 800,000, has a land area of less than 75 square 
        miles, and among cities having a population exceeding 250,000 
        ranks among the 25 having the highest poverty rates, such unit 
        of general local government may use not more than 25 percent in 
        each such fiscal year for activities under this paragraph''.
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