S.Amdt. 1810

1. Adds Sec. 244. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation may not, from any amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under this title for fiscal year 2014, award any discretionary grant amounts to any nonprofit organization that, in any of fiscal years 2009 through 2013-- on page 169, between lines 22 and 23

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   Inserted: Sec. 244. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation may not, from any amounts appropriated or otherwise made available under this title for fiscal year 2014, award any discretionary grant amounts to any nonprofit organization that, in any of fiscal years 2009 through 2013--

   Inserted: (1) provided a compensation package to one or more of its officers at a level exceeding, by at least 25 percent, the maximum basic rate of pay of the Senior Executive Service;

   Inserted: (2) utilized an average of 12 percent or more of the discretionary grant amounts it received from either the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for the organization's grant administration expenses (including salaries); and

   Inserted: (3) had a finding of a significant deficiency or material weakness in any audit of that organization furnished to or conducted on behalf of either the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation in connection with a Federal housing grant award.

   Inserted: (b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation shall each submit a report to the Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Chair and Ranking Member of the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives--

   Inserted: (1) on the number of nonprofit organization grantees meeting the criteria established under subsection (a);

   Inserted: (2) that summarize the type and amount of Federal housing grants awarded to each such organization, including the percentage of each such grant that was utilized by the organization for grant administration expenses, in each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013; and

   Inserted: (3) that describe the steps to be taken by the Secretary or the Corporation, as the case may be, to achieve greater cost-savings and grant-administration efficiencies in the future, including a plan for requiring future grant recipients to limit their grant administration expenditures to 10 percent of grant funds received from the Secretary or the Corporation, as the case may be.

   Inserted: (c) For purposes of this section, the term "nonprofit organization" means an organization that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.

   Inserted: Sec. 245. Any amounts saved, reserved, remaining, or otherwise unobligated as a result of the prohibition set forth under section 244, shall be transferred to and appropriated under the heading "Home Investment Partnerships Program": Provided, that such amounts shall only be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to rehabilitate substandard housing of children residing in rural counties with the highest poverty rates.

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