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Calendar No. 689.","date":"2024-12-09"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-05-06","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Special District Grant Accessibility Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidance within 180 days that clarifies how a federal agency recognizes a special district as a unit of local government for the purpose of being eligible to receive federal financial assistance."},{"k":"p","t":"Under the bill, a special district is a political subdivision of a state, with specified boundaries and significant budgetary autonomy or control, that was created by or pursuant to state law to perform limited and specific governmental or proprietary functions that distinguish it as a significantly separate entity from the administrative governance structure of any other form of local government unit within a state."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill requires federal agencies to implement OMB's guidance within one year of the date it is issued."}],"words":130},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance on how federal agencies recognize special districts as units of local government for eligibility to receive Federal financial assistance, and requires agencies to implement it.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}]},"core_areas":["Recognition of special districts as local government for Federal financial assistance eligibility"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance, within 180 days after enactment, clarifying how an agency recognizes a special district as a unit of local government for the purpose of being eligible to receive Federal financial assistance.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}},{"text":"Requires the head of each agency to implement the requirements of the guidance within 1 year after it is issued and to conform any policy, principle, practice, procedure, or guideline relating to administration of the agency's Federal financial assistance programs.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}},{"text":"Requires the Director to submit a report, within 2 years after enactment, evaluating agency implementation of and conformity to the guidance to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}},{"text":"Defines a special district as a political subdivision of a State, with specified boundaries and significant budgetary autonomy or control, created by or pursuant to State law to perform limited and specific governmental or proprietary functions.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}},{"text":"Defines Federal financial assistance as assistance a non-Federal entity receives or administers, such as a grant, loan, loan guarantee, property, cooperative agreement, interest subsidy, insurance, food commodity, or direct appropriation, and excludes certain reimbursements for services rendered to an individual.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh#H15F6DA00F122498C97F0F1EB567F956B"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-06","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-01","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7525/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-7525.png","v":"1a4ecbd45616","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 7525, 118th Congress: Special District Grant Accessibility Act. House: 352 Yea, 27 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 6 May 2024."}}