P.J.'s Act

P.J.'s Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of security cameras, safety lighting, and building locking mechanisms in public housing eligible for community development block grant (CDBG) assistance.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5317 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5317

  To make the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of security 
  cameras, safety lighting, and building locking mechanisms in public 
 housing an eligible activity under community development block grant 
                                program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2014

  Mr. Jeffries (for himself and Mr. Capuano) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of security 
  cameras, safety lighting, and building locking mechanisms in public 
 housing an eligible activity under community development block grant 
                                program.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``P.J.'s Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.

    Section 105(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (16) through (28) as 
        paragraphs (17) through (29), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (15) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(16) the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of 
        security cameras, safety lighting, and building locking 
        mechanisms in public housing (as such term is defined in 
        section 3(b)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
        U.S.C. 1437a(b)(1)));''.
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