SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 
ADMINISTRATION 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT 
For an additional amount for drug court grants as 
authorized under section 509 of the Public Health Service 
Act, $10,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2016. 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Choice Neighborhoods 
Initiative’’, $170,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2016. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Develop-
ment Fund’’, $500,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2016, for necessary expenses related to emer-
gency response, long-term recovery, restoration of infra-
structure and housing, and economic revitalization in the 
most impacted and distressed areas resulting from sudden 
violence, civil unrest or other major disturbance affecting 
human life and safety in calendar year 2015, for activities 
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authorized under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.): Pro-
vided, That funds shall be awarded to a State, tribe, or 
unit of general local government as a grantee at the dis-
cretion of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment for distressed communities determined by the Sec-
retary to be distressed due to insufficient capacity to re-
spond to and recover from the unanticipated event and 
objectively measurable criteria such as high levels of racial 
or income segregation, or both, low levels of employment 
among 16 to 64 year olds, low levels of college enrollment 
or employment for low-income youth aged 17 to 25, con-
centrations of poor-performing schools, high rates of in-
fant mortality, large numbers of vacant and abandoned 
homes, and low-income populations in close proximity to 
brownfields or other environmentally hazardous areas: 
Provided further, That prior to the obligation of funds, a 
grantee shall submit a plan to the Secretary for approval 
detailing the proposed use of all funds, including criteria 
for eligibility and how the use of these funds will address 
long-term recovery and restoration of infrastructure and 
housing and economic revitalization in the most impacted 
and distressed areas: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall by notice specify the criteria for approval of such 
plans within 45 days of enactment of this Act: Provided 
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further, That if the Secretary determines that a plan does 
not meet such criteria, the Secretary shall disapprove the 
plan: Provided further, That funds allocated under this 
heading shall not be considered relevant to the non-emer-
gency formula allocations made pursuant to section 106 
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5306): Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide grantees with training on grant management, 
including on the use of contracts and subrecipient agree-
ments, and shall require grantees to incorporate perform-
ance requirements and penalties into any such contracts 
or subrecipient agreements: Provided further, That, in ad-
ministering the funds under this heading, the Secretary 
may waive, or specify alternative requirements for, any 
provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary 
administers in connection with the obligation by the Sec-
retary or the use by the recipient of these funds (except 
for requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimina-
tion, labor standards, and the environment) pursuant to 
a determination by the Secretary that good cause exists 
for the waiver or alternative requirement and that such 
action is not inconsistent with the overall purposes of title 
I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.): Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
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may use up to 30 percent of these funds to supplement 
existing, competitively awarded agreements for technical 
assistance to provide immediate community response, re-
covery, and revitalization assistance to affected commu-
nities: Provided further, That, of the funds made available 
under this heading, up to $10,000,000 may be transferred 
to ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses—Community 
Planning and Development’’ or to ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development—Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’, for necessary costs, including information tech-
nology costs, of administering and overseeing funds made 
available under this heading. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY 
HOMES 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Lead Hazard Reduc-
tion’’, $30,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2016. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
MOVING-TO-WORK 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall extend the current Moving-to-Work agree-
ments of previously designated participating agencies until 
the end of each such agency’s fiscal year 2028 under the 
same terms and conditions of such current agreements, 
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except for any changes to such terms or conditions other-
wise mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and any such 
agency and such extension agreements shall prohibit any 
statutory offset of any reserve balances equal to four 
months of operating expenses. Any such reserve balances 
that exceed such amount shall remain available to any 
such agency for all permissible purposes under such agree-
ment unless subject to a statutory offset. In addition to 
other reporting requirements, all Moving-to-Work agencies 
shall report financial data to the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development as specified by the Secretary, so 
that the effect of Moving-to-Work policy changes can be 
measured. 
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION 
SEC. 102. Each amount provided in this Act is des-
ignated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that each 
amount shall be available only if the President subse-
quently so designates all such amounts and transmits such 
designations to the Congress. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rebuilding Urban 
Inner Cities Is Long Overdue Act of 2015’’ or the ‘‘RE-
BUILD Act’’. 
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