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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8451 

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to provide 

additional funding under the Community Development Block Grant program for units of general local government to digitize and make available 

online information regarding violations of housing construction, building, 

and safety codes, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 

Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CARSON

of Indiana, Mrs. HAYES, and Mr. SAN NICOLAS) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act 

of 1974 to provide additional funding under the Community Development Block Grant program for units of general local government to digitize and make available online information regarding violations of housing construction, building, and safety codes, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Know Your Home Act 

5 of 2020’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 

2 (a) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITY.—Subsection (a) of section 

3 105 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 

4 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended— 

5 (1) in paragraph (25)(D), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

6 the end; 

7 (2) in paragraph (26), by striking the period at 

8 the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

9 (3) by adding at the end the following new 

10 paragraph: 

11 ‘‘(27) payment of costs incurred by a unit of 

12 general local government that receives amounts 

13 under this title (including pursuant to section 

14 106(d)(1)) for making publicly available online com15 prehensive information regarding violations during 

16 the most recent 3 years of any Federal, State, or 

17 local statutes, codes, ordinances, or regulations re18 lating to the construction, safety, quality, health, or 

19 cleanliness of residential structures by any struc20 tures located in such unit of general local govern21 ment, which shall include the location of the struc22 ture, identity of the owner of the structure, the na23 ture of the violation, the date or dates of the viola24 tion, and the date of any rescission of such viola25 tion.’’. 


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1 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 

2 103 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 

3 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended— 

4 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 

5 ‘‘The Secretary’’; and 

6 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub7 section: 

8 ‘‘(b) AMOUNTS FOR ESTABLISHING ONLINE DATA9 BASE OF HOUSING CODE VIOLATIONS.—In addition to 

10 amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection 

11 (a), there is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 

12 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025, for grants 

13 under this title, except that amounts made available pur14 suant to this subsection for a fiscal year may only be used 

15 for the eligible activity under section 105(a)(27) and may 

16 only be provided to units of general local government 

17 whose statements of projected uses of funds under this 

18 title prepared in accordance with section 104(a) for a fis19 cal year provide for such use for such fiscal year.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR CDBG GRANT 

21 AMOUNTS. 

22 Section 104 of the Housing and Community Develop23 ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended by adding 

24 at the end the following new subsection: 


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1 ‘‘(n) REQUIREMENT TO COLLECT AND MAKE AVAIL2 ABLE INFORMATION REGARDING HOUSING CODE VIOLA3 TIONS.— 

4 ‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—No funds made available 

5 for fiscal year 2026 or any fiscal year thereafter for 

6 grants under this Act may be allocated for, or obli7 gated or expended to, any unit of general local gov8 ernment that fails to collect and make publicly avail9 able immediately upon request comprehensive infor10 mation regarding violations during the most recent 

11 3 years of any Federal, State, or local statutes, 

12 codes, ordinances, or regulations relating to the con13 struction, safety, quality, health, or cleanliness of 

14 residential structures by any structures located in 

15 such unit of general local government, which shall 

16 include the location of the structure, identity of the 

17 owner of the structure, the nature of the violation, 

18 the date or dates of the violation, and the date of 

19 any rescission of such violation. 

20 ‘‘(2) PREEMPTION.—The laws of any State or 

21 unit of general local government requiring the filing 

22 of a request and other procedures for obtaining in23 formation from a State or unit of general local gov24 ernment, or any agency thereof, to obtain such infor25 mation are preempted to the extent that such laws 


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1 apply to information regarding the violations de2 scribed in paragraph (1) and to information regard3 ing violations described in section 105(a)(27).’’. 

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