S.Amdt. 3534

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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