I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6748 
To provide funding for cities, counties, and other units of general local 
government to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 8, 2020 
Mr. DELGADO (for himself and Mr. ZELDIN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition 
to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide funding for cities, counties, and other units of 
general local government to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Direct Support for 
Communities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS. 
The following sums are hereby appropriated, out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
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for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for 
other purposes, namely: 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Community Devel-
opment Fund’’, such sums as may be necessary, to remain 
available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and re-
spond to coronavirus, which shall be in addition to any 
other amounts available for such purposes, of which— 
(1) 50 percent shall be allocated to metropoli-
tan cities and other units of general local govern-
ment (as those terms are defined in section 102 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)), of which— 
(A) 70 percent of such sums shall be dis-
tributed, not later than 30 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, pursuant to the for-
mula under section 106(b)(1) of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5306(b)(1)) to metropolitan cities that 
received allocations pursuant to such formula in 
fiscal year 2019; and 
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(B) 30 percent of such sums shall be dis-
tributed, not later than 30 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, to States (as defined 
in such section 102) for use by units of general 
local government, other than counties or par-
ishes, in nonentitlement areas (as defined in 
such section 102) of the State, in amounts 
equal to the relative sum of the populations of 
such units of general local government in a 
State as a proportion of the total population of 
all such units of general local government in all 
States: Provided, That a State shall pass- 
through the amounts received under this sub-
paragraph within 30 days of receipt to such 
units of general local government: Provided fur-
ther, That if a State has not elected to dis-
tribute 
amounts 
allocated 
under 
section 
106(d)(1) of the Housing and Community De-
velopment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(d)(1)), 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall distribute the applicable amounts 
under this subparagraph to such units of gen-
eral local government in the State not later 
than 30 days after the date on which the State 
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would otherwise have received the amounts 
from the Secretary; and 
(2) 50 percent shall be distributed, not later 
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, directly to counties and parishes of States, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
and American Samoa, in amounts equal to the rel-
ative sum of the populations of the counties and par-
ishes in a State or such other jurisdiction as a pro-
portion of the total population of all the counties 
and parishes in all States and such other jurisdic-
tions: Provided, That in calculating the populations 
of counties and parishes for purposes of this para-
graph, the District of Columbia shall be treated as 
a county: Provided further, That no county or parish 
that is an urban county (as defined in section 102 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) shall receive less than the 
amount the county or parish would otherwise receive 
if the amount distributed under this paragraph were 
allocated to metropolitan cities and urban counties 
under section 106(b) of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(b)): 
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