[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 855 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 855

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

                             April 25, 2013

  Mr. Nelson 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 2013''.

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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