[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5310-S5311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3534. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 6147, making appropriations for the Department 
of the Interior, environment, and related

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agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. __.  Section 414(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11373(b)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(b) Minimum Allocation Requirement.--
       ``(1) In general.--If, under the allocation provisions 
     applicable under this subtitle, a metropolitan city or an 
     urban county would receive a grant of less than .05 percent 
     of the amounts appropriated under section 408 and made 
     available to carry out this subtitle for any fiscal year, 
     such amount shall be--
       ``(A) in the case of the metropolitan city--
       ``(i) reallocated to the urban county in which the 
     metropolitan city is located, if the urban county--

       ``(I) has previously received and administered assistance 
     under this section; and
       ``(II) agrees to receive such amount; or

       ``(ii) if the urban county in which the metropolitan city 
     is located does not meet the requirements under subclauses 
     (I) and (II) of clause (i), reallocated to the State in which 
     the metropolitan city is located; and
       ``(B) in the case of the urban county--
       ``(i) provided to the urban county, if the urban county has 
     previously received and administered assistance under this 
     section; or
       ``(ii) if the urban county has not previously received and 
     administered assistance under this section, reallocated to 
     the State in which the urban county is located.
       ``(2) Exceptions.--
       ``(A) Metropolitan cities.--Notwithstanding paragraph 
     (1)(A), the grant amount described in paragraph (1) with 
     respect to a metropolitan city shall be provided to the 
     metropolitan city if the metropolitan city--
       ``(i) is located in a State that does not have counties as 
     local governments;
       ``(ii) has a population greater than 40,000 but less than 
     50,000 as used in determining the fiscal year 1987 community 
     development block grant program allocation; and
       ``(iii) was allocated in excess of $1,000,000 in community 
     development block grant funds in fiscal year 1987.
       ``(B) Reallocation to the state.--
       ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any 
     amount allocated to an urban county or metropolitan city 
     under this subtitle shall be reallocated to the State in 
     which the urban county or metropolitan city is located if the 
     amount determined under clause (ii) for a fiscal year is less 
     than .05 percent of the amounts appropriated under section 
     408 and made available to carry out this subtitle for that 
     fiscal year.
       ``(ii) Amount.--The amount determined under this clause is 
     equal to the sum of--

       ``(I) the grant that each metropolitan city located within 
     an urban county would receive under the allocation provisions 
     applicable under this subtitle, in the aggregate; and
       ``(II) the grant that the urban county would receive under 
     the allocation provisions applicable under this subtitle.

       ``(3) Amounts reallocated to urban counties.--An urban 
     county that receives amounts reallocated under paragraph 
     (1)(A)(i) may expend those amounts for the benefit of 
     metropolitan cities located in the urban county.''.
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