A bill to establish a national system of regional development banks to provide loans to finance urgently needed public facilities for State and local governments, to help achieve a full employment economy both in urban and rural America by providing loans for the establishment of small and medium size businesses and industries, and the expansion and improvement of such existing businesses and industries, and for the construction of low and moderate income housing projects, and to provide job training for unskilled and semiskilled unemployed and underemployed workers.
Regional Development Act - Establishes one independent capital development bank in each of the ten standard Federal administrative regions. Provides for the management and capitalization of such banks.
Empowers each bank to issue notes, debentures, bonds, and other evidence of indebtedness in such amounts and on such terms and conditions as its board of directors may determine subject to the limitations prescribed in this Act.
Authorizes the banks to make or guarantee loans to provide funds for: (1) the purchase of real and personal property and for working capital necessary for the location of new business and industry or the improvement of existing business and industry in depressed urban and rural areas; (2) financing capital expenditures for public works and community facilities; and (3) making loans to appropriate public agencies, nonprofit cooperatives and corporations, developers, and other persons to provide construction loans for low and moderate income housing loan programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Veterans' Administration, and the Farmers Home Administration of the Department of Agriculture.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
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