[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2183 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2183

To increase the portion of community development block grants that may 
      be used to provide public services, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To increase the portion of community development block grants that may 
      be used to provide public services, 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 ``CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN PUBLIC SERVICES CAP.

    Section 105(a)(8) 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 it appears and 
        inserting ``25 percent''; and
            (2) by striking ``amount, except'' and all that follows 
        through the semicolon at the end and inserting ``amount;''.
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