S.Amdt. 1112

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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