CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2013

CDBG Public Services Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to revise requirements for activities eligible for community development block grant (CDBG) assistance.

Increases from 15% to 25% the limitation on the amount of CDBG assistance that may be used to provide public services (e.g., those concerned with employment, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, energy conservation, welfare or recreation needs).

(Currently, only the city and county of Los Angeles, California, and the city of Miami, Florida, are favored with the 25% limit on the amount of CDBG assistance that may be used to provide public services.)

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1758 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1758

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 25, 2013

Ms. Ros-Lehtinen (for herself, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, 
 Ms. Wilson of Florida, and Mr. Garcia) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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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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