To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to maximize the efficiency in administering governmental functions.

Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to: (1) include grants for maximizing efficiency in administering governmental functions among grants the Secretary of Commerce may make that would be useful in alleviating or preventing conditions of excessive unemployment or underemployment; and (2) allow use of such grants for developing and conducting or implementing county or municipal government efficiency assessments.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4293 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4293

   To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to 
    maximize the efficiency in administering governmental functions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2009

  Mr. Arcuri introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to 
    maximize the efficiency in administering governmental functions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EFFICIENCY IN GOVERNMENT.

    Section 207 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
1965(a) (42 U.S.C. 3147(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1) by inserting ``maximizing the 
        efficiency in administering governmental functions and'' after 
        ``grants for''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by redesignating subparagraphs (H) and (I) as 
                subparagraphs (I) and (J), respectively; and
                    (B) by inserting after subparagraph (G) the 
                following:
                    ``(H) developing and conducting or implementing 
                county or municipal government efficiency 
                assessments;''.
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