[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1415 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1415

   To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
    immediately release certain grant funds awarded for mitigation 
activities under the Community Development Block Grant program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2019

  Mr. Manchin (for himself, Mr. Cornyn, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Cruz, Mr. 
 Tillis, and Ms. Harris) 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 require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
    immediately release certain grant funds awarded for mitigation 
activities under the Community Development Block Grant program, 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 ``Bipartisan Disaster Recovery Funding 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Funding for mitigation activities was appropriated to 
        the Department of Housing and Urban Development by Congress in 
        February 2018 under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public 
        Law 115-123; 132 Stat. 64).
            (2) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development told 
        Congress that the funding described in paragraph (1) would be 
        released by May 1, 2019.
            (3) May 1, 2019, has come and gone with no official 
        explanation as to the reason for the continued delay in 
        releasing the funds.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT.

    For all amounts made available for mitigation activities under the 
heading ``Department of Housing and Urban Development--Community 
Planning and Development--Community Development Fund'' in Public Law 
115-123, and awarded as grants by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, 
not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, release 
such amounts awarded to all eligible grantees, regardless of any 
further studies as may be otherwise required by law.
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