[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 887 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 887

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 4, 2011

  Mr. Nelson of Florida 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 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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