[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 169 (Thursday, October 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6171-S6172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1112. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and

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Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 493, line 17, strike the period and insert the 
     following: ``Provided further, That with respect to the 
     allocation of funds provided under this heading for the 
     Emergency Solutions Grant Program, if, under the allocation 
     provisions applicable under subtitle B of the McKinney-Vento 
     Homeless Assistance Act, a metropolitan city, urban county, 
     or consortium would receive a grant of less than .05 percent 
     of the amounts appropriated to carry out that subtitle under 
     this heading, such amount shall instead of reallocated to the 
     State, except that any urban county that previously received 
     and administered a grant under section 408 of such Act shall 
     receive directly the amount allocated to the urban county 
     under section 408(a) of such Act, and the amount allocated to 
     a metropolitan city which fell below the threshold under such 
     section 408(a) shall be reallocated to any urban county that 
     has previously received and administered assistance under 
     section 408 of such Act in the county, parish or borough in 
     which the metropolitan city is located, provided that the 
     urban county provides such assurances as the Secretary may 
     require that the amount allocated to the city under section 
     408(a) of such Act will be used for eligible activities that 
     address the needs of persons living in the city who are 
     homeless or at risk of homelessness: Provided further, That 
     if, under the allocation provisions applicable under such 
     subtitle B, the urban county and metropolitan cities in a 
     county, parish, or borough would receive an aggregate amount 
     of grants from amounts provided under this heading for a 
     fiscal year that is less than 0.05 percent of the amounts 
     appropriated to carry out such subtitle B under this heading, 
     the aggregate amount shall instead be reallocated to the 
     State: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the previous 2 
     provisos, a metropolitan city shall receive the grant amount 
     described in such provisos if the metropolitan city (1) is 
     located in a State that does not have counties as local 
     governments, (2) 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 (3) 
     was allocated in excess of $1,000,000 in community 
     development block grant funds in fiscal year 1987.''.
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