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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 pro-
gram 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 Commu-
nity Development Block Grant program for units of gen-
eral local government to digitize and make available on-
line information regarding violations of housing construc-
tion, building, and safety codes, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Know Your Home Act 
of 2020’’. 
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SEC. 2. CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES. 
(a) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITY.—Subsection (a) of section 
105 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (25)(D), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in paragraph (26), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(27) payment of costs incurred by a unit of 
general local government that receives amounts 
under this title (including pursuant to section 
106(d)(1)) for making publicly available online com-
prehensive information regarding violations during 
the most recent 3 years of any Federal, State, or 
local statutes, codes, ordinances, or regulations re-
lating to the construction, safety, quality, health, or 
cleanliness of residential structures by any struc-
tures located in such unit of general local govern-
ment, which shall include the location of the struc-
ture, identity of the owner of the structure, the na-
ture of the violation, the date or dates of the viola-
tion, and the date of any rescission of such viola-
tion.’’. 
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(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
103 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 
‘‘The Secretary’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(b) AMOUNTS FOR ESTABLISHING ONLINE DATA-
BASE OF HOUSING CODE VIOLATIONS.—In addition to 
amounts authorized to be appropriated under subsection 
(a), there is authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025, for grants 
under this title, except that amounts made available pur-
suant to this subsection for a fiscal year may only be used 
for the eligible activity under section 105(a)(27) and may 
only be provided to units of general local government 
whose statements of projected uses of funds under this 
title prepared in accordance with section 104(a) for a fis-
cal year provide for such use for such fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR CDBG GRANT 
AMOUNTS. 
Section 104 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
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‘‘(n) REQUIREMENT TO COLLECT AND MAKE AVAIL-
ABLE INFORMATION REGARDING HOUSING CODE VIOLA-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT.—No funds made available 
for fiscal year 2026 or any fiscal year thereafter for 
grants under this Act may be allocated for, or obli-
gated or expended to, any unit of general local gov-
ernment that fails to collect and make publicly avail-
able immediately upon request comprehensive infor-
mation regarding violations during the most recent 
3 years of any Federal, State, or local statutes, 
codes, ordinances, or regulations relating to the con-
struction, safety, quality, health, or cleanliness of 
residential structures by any structures located in 
such unit of general local government, which shall 
include the location of the structure, identity of the 
owner of the structure, the nature of the violation, 
the date or dates of the violation, and the date of 
any rescission of such violation. 
‘‘(2) PREEMPTION.—The laws of any State or 
unit of general local government requiring the filing 
of a request and other procedures for obtaining in-
formation from a State or unit of general local gov-
ernment, or any agency thereof, to obtain such infor-
mation are preempted to the extent that such laws 
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apply to information regarding the violations de-
scribed in paragraph (1) and to information regard-
ing violations described in section 105(a)(27).’’. 
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