Databases of Publicly Owned Land Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6773

 To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require 
that grantees of the Community Development Block Grant program maintain 
                   a database of publicly owned land.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 17, 2025

  Ms. Waters introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require 
that grantees of the Community Development Block Grant program maintain 
                   a database of publicly owned land.

    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 ``Databases of Publicly Owned Land 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DATABASES OF PUBLICLY OWNED LAND.

    (a) In General.--Section 104(b) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) the grantee maintains, on a publicly accessible 
        website, a searchable database that identifies all parcels of 
        undeveloped land owned by the grantee.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on October 1, 2026.
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