S.Amdt. 2518

SA 2518. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Kaine) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr.
Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr.
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr.
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs,
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in division C, insert the
following:

SEC. 300__. URBANIZED AREAS.

(a) Extension of Treatment of Urbanized Areas.--Section
21101 of division B of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018
(Public Law 115-123; 132 Stat. 103) is amended by striking
``and 2020'' and inserting ``2020, 2021, and 2022''.
(b) Census Discretion.--Section 5324 of title 49, United
States Code (as amended by section 30011), is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``(g) Census Discretion.--
``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
``(A) Disaster-related population decrease.--The term
`disaster-related population decrease', with respect to an
urbanized area, means that--
``(i) the population of the urbanized area decreases to be
less than 50,000 individuals, as determined in a decennial
census after the decennial census in which the area was
designated as an urbanized area; and
``(ii) the decrease described in clause (i) is a result of
a major disaster declared by the President under section 401
of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170).
``(B) Urbanized area.--The term `urbanized area' means an
area designated in a decennial census as an urbanized area by
the Secretary of Commerce.
``(2) Election.--On request by the Governor of a State in
which an urbanized area that experiences a disaster-related
population decrease is located, the Secretary may elect for
the purposes of this chapter, including for purposes of
making apportionments under this chapter, to continue to
treat the area as an urbanized area with the same population
and land area as the area had in the most recent decennial
census in which it was designated as an urbanized area by the
Secretary of Commerce.''.
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