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42 U.S.C. § 9910 — Tripartite boards
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**(a) Private nonprofit entities**
(1) **Board** — In order for a private, nonprofit entity to be considered to be an eligible entity for purposes of [section 9902(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9902/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the entity shall administer the community services block grant program through a tripartite board described in paragraph (2) that fully participates in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the program to serve low-income communities.
(2) **Selection and composition of board** — The members of the board referred to in paragraph (1) shall be selected by the entity and the board shall be composed so as to assure that—
(A) ⅓ of the members of the board are elected public officials, holding office on the date of selection, or their representatives, except that if the number of such elected officials reasonably available and willing to serve on the board is less than ⅓ of the membership of the board, membership on the board of appointive public officials or their representatives may be counted in meeting such ⅓ requirement;
(B)
(i) not fewer than ⅓ of the members are persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that these members are representative of low-income individuals and families in the neighborhood served; and
(ii) each representative of low-income individuals and families selected to represent a specific neighborhood within a community under clause (i) resides in the neighborhood represented by the member; and
(C) the remainder of the members are officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, law enforcement, education, or other major groups and interests in the community served.
**(b)
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**(a) Private nonprofit entities**
(1) **Board** — In order for a private, nonprofit entity to be considered to be an eligible entity for purposes of [section 9902(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9902/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the entity shall administer the community services block grant program through a tripartite board described in paragraph (2) that fully participates in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the program to serve low-income communities.
(2) **Selection and composition of board** — The members of the board referred to in paragraph (1) shall be selected by the entity and the board shall be composed so as to assure that—
(A) ⅓ of the members of the board are elected public officials, holding office on the date of selection, or their representatives, except that if the number of such elected officials reasonably available and willing to serve on the board is less than ⅓ of the membership of the board, membership on the board of appointive public officials or their representatives may be counted in meeting such ⅓ requirement;
(B)
(i) not fewer than ⅓ of the members are persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that these members are representative of low-income individuals and families in the neighborhood served; and
(ii) each representative of low-income individuals and families selected to represent a specific neighborhood within a community under clause (i) resides in the neighborhood represented by the member; and
(C) the remainder of the members are officials or members of business, industry, labor, religious, law enforcement, education, or other major groups and interests in the community served.
**(b) Public organizations** In order for a public organization to be considered to be an eligible entity for purposes of [section 9902(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9902/1&num=0&edition=prelim), the entity shall administer the community services block grant program through—
(1) a tripartite board, which shall have members selected by the organization and shall be composed so as to assure that not fewer than ⅓ of the members are persons chosen in accordance with democratic selection procedures adequate to assure that these members—
(A) are representative of low-income individuals and families in the neighborhood served;
(B) reside in the neighborhood served; and
(C) are able to participate actively in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs funded under this chapter; or
(2) another mechanism specified by the State to assure decisionmaking and participation by low-income individuals in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs funded under this chapter.
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**(a) General authority**
(1) In order to stimulate the development of new approaches to provide for greater self-sufficiency of the poor, to test and evaluate such new approaches, to disseminate project results and evaluation findings so that such approaches can be replicated, and to strengthen the integration, coordination, and redirection of activities to promote maximum self-sufficiency among the poor, the Secretary may make grants from funds appropriated under subsection (e) to eligible entities for the development and implementation of new and innovative approaches to deal with particularly critical needs or problems of the poor which are common to a number of communities. Grants may be made only with respect to applications which—
(A) involve activities which can be incorporated into or be closely coordinated with eligible entities’ ongoing programs;
(B) involve significant new combinations of resources or new and innovative approaches involving partnership agreements;
(C) are structured in a way that will, within the limits of the type of assistance or activities contemplated, most fully and effectively promote the purposes of the Community Services Block Grant Act [[42 U.S.C. 9901](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9901&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]; and
(D) contain an assurance that the applicant for such grants will obtain an independent, methodologically sound evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities carried out with such grant and will submit such evaluation to the Secretary.
(2) No grant may be made under this section unless an application is submitted to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information, as the Secretary may require.
(3) Initial
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**(a) In general** The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the “Secretary”) shall enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations (including community development corporations) submitting applications under this section for the purpose of conducting projects in accordance with subsection (b) to create employment opportunities for certain low-income individuals.
**(b) Nature of project**
(1) Each nonprofit organization conducting a project under this section shall provide technical and financial assistance to private employers in the community to assist them in creating employment and business opportunities for those individuals eligible to participate in the projects as described in this subsection.
(2) For purposes of this section, a nonprofit organization is any organization (including a community development corporation) exempt from taxation under [section 501(a) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section501/a&num=0&edition=prelim) by reason of paragraph (3) or (4) of section 501(c) of such title.
(3) A low-income individual eligible to participate in a project conducted under this section is any individual eligible to receive assistance under the program funded part 11 So in original. Probably should be “under part”. A of title IV of the Social Security Act [[42 U.S.C. 601](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section601&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] of the State in which the individual resides and any other individual whose income level does not exceed 100 percent of the official poverty line as defined by the Office of Management and Budget and revised in accordance with [section 9902(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=gr
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary shall issue regulations establishing procedures under which eligible units of general local government are required to provide notice to the Secretary of the units’ proposed use of assistance under this chapter. Subject to subsection (c), the assistance provided shall be used, in amounts determined by the unit, for activities under, or for activities that are substantially similar to an activity under, 1 or more of the following programs and the notice shall identify 1 or more of the following programs for each such use:
(1) The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program under section 5122 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
(2) The National Youth Sports Program under section 682 of the Community Services Block Grant Act (Public Law 97–35) as amended by section 205, Public Law 103–252.
(3) The Gang Resistance Education and Training Program under the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, and for other purposes”, approved November 5, 1990 (Public Law 101–509).
(4) Programs under title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
(5) Programs under subtitle C of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ([42 U.S.C. 12571](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section12571&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), as amended.
(6) Programs under the School to Work Opportunities Act (Public Law 103–239).
(7) Substance Abuse Treatment and Prevention programs authorized under title V or XIX of the Public Health Services Act ([43 U.S.C. 201](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-
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**(a) Preparation and development by area agency on aging; requirements** Each area agency on aging designated under [section 3025(a)(2)(A) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3025/a/2/A&num=0&edition=prelim) shall, in order to be approved by the State agency, prepare and develop an area plan for a planning and service area for a two-, three-, or four-year period determined by the State agency, with such annual adjustments as may be necessary. Each such plan shall be based upon a uniform format for area plans within the State prepared in accordance with [section 3027(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3027/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim). Each such plan shall—
(1) provide, through a comprehensive and coordinated system, for supportive services, nutrition services, and, where appropriate, for the establishment, maintenance, modernization, or construction of multipurpose senior centers (including a plan to use the skills and services of older individuals in paid and unpaid work, including multigenerational and older individual to older individual work), within the planning and service area covered by the plan, including determining the extent of need for supportive services, nutrition services, and multipurpose senior centers in such area (taking into consideration, among other things, the number of older individuals with low incomes residing in such area, the number of older individuals who have greatest economic need (with particular attention to low-income older individuals, including low-income minority older individuals, older individuals with limited English proficiency, and older individuals residing in rural areas) residing in such area, the number of ol
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**(a) Modification of interest rates** Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1) any outstanding loan made after December 31, 1982, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; or
(2) any loan made after September 30, 1986;
with moneys from the Rural Development Loan Fund established by [section 9812(c)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9812/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim) or with funds available (before October 27, 1998) under [section 9910(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9910/a&num=0&edition=prelim) (as in effect before October 27, 1998) to an intermediary borrower shall bear interest at a fixed rate equal to the rate of interest that was in effect on the date of issuance for loans made in 1980 with such moneys or such funds if the weighted average rate of interest for all loans made after December 31, 1982, by such intermediary borrower with such moneys or such funds does not exceed the sum of 6 percent and the rate of interest payable under this subsection by such intermediary borrower.
**(b) Assignment of certain loan contracts** Any contract for a loan made during the period beginning on December 31, 1982, and ending on September 30, 1986, with—
(1) moneys from the Rural Development Loan Fund established by [section 9812(c)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9812/c/1&num=0&edition=prelim); or
(2) funds available (before October 27, 1998) under [section 9910(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9910/a&num=0&edition=prelim) (as in effect before October 27, 1998);
to an intermediary borrower that is a county government may be
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In this chapter:
(1) **Eligible entity; family literacy services**
(A) *Eligible entity* — The term “eligible entity” means an entity—
(i) that is an eligible entity described in paragraph (1) (as in effect on the day before October 27, 1998) as of the day before October 27, 1998, or is designated by the process described in [section 9909 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9909&num=0&edition=prelim) (including an organization serving migrant or seasonal farmworkers that is so described or designated); and
(ii) that has a tripartite board or other mechanism described in subsection (a) or (b), as appropriate, of [section 9910 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9910&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Family literacy services* — The term “family literacy services” has the meaning given the term in [section 9832 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9832&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Poverty line** — The term “poverty line” means the official poverty line defined by the Office of Management and Budget based on the most recent data available from the Bureau of the Census. The Secretary shall revise annually (or at any shorter interval the Secretary determines to be feasible and desirable) the poverty line, which shall be used as a criterion of eligibility in the community services block grant program established under this chapter. The required revision shall be accomplished by multiplying the official poverty line by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers during the annual or other interval immediately preceding the time at which the revision is made. Whenever a State
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**(a) Religious organizations included as nongovernmental providers** For any program carried out by the Federal Government, or by a State or local government under this chapter, the government shall consider, on the same basis as other nongovernmental organizations, religious organizations to provide the assistance under the program, so long as the program is implemented in a manner consistent with the Establishment Clause of the first amendment to the Constitution. Neither the Federal Government nor a State or local government receiving funds under this chapter shall discriminate against an organization that provides assistance under, or applies to provide assistance under, this chapter, on the basis that the organization has a religious character.
**(b) Religious character and independence**
(1) **In general** — A religious organization that provides assistance under a program described in subsection (a) shall retain its religious character and control over the definition, development, practice, and expression of its religious beliefs.
(2) **Additional safeguards** — Neither the Federal Government nor a State or local government shall require a religious organization—
(A) to alter its form of internal governance, except (for purposes of administration of the community services block grant program) as provided in [section 9910 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section9910&num=0&edition=prelim); or
(B) to remove religious art, icons, scripture, or other symbols;
in order to be eligible to provide assistance under a program described in subsection (a).
(3) **Employment practices** — A religious organization’s exemption provided under [section 2000e–1 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=gran
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**(a) Grants** The Secretary may, through grants to public and private, nonprofit agencies, provide for community-based, local, statewide, and national programs—
(1) to coordinate private and public food assistance resources, wherever the grant recipient involved determines such coordination to be inadequate, to better serve low-income populations;
(2) to assist low-income communities to identify potential sponsors of child nutrition programs and to initiate such programs in underserved or unserved areas; and
(3) to develop innovative approaches at the State and local level to meet the nutrition needs of low-income individuals.
**(b) Allotments and distribution of funds**
(1) **Not to exceed $6,000,000 in appropriations** — Of the amount appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out this section (but not to exceed $6,000,000), the Secretary shall distribute funds for grants under subsection (a) as follows:
(A) *Allotments* — From a portion equal to 60 percent of such amount (but not to exceed $3,600,000), the Secretary shall allot for grants to eligible agencies for statewide programs in each State the amount that bears the same ratio to such portion as the low-income and unemployed population of such State bears to the low-income and unemployed population of all the States.
(B) *Competitive grants* — From a portion equal to 40 percent of such amount (but not to exceed $2,400,000), the Secretary shall make grants on a competitive basis to eligible agencies for local and statewide programs.
(2) **Greater available appropriations** — Any amounts appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out this section in excess of $6,000,000 shall be allotted as follows:
(A) *Allotments* — The Secretary shall use 40 percent of such excess to allot for grants under subsection
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 9909
funds, prior to the general amendment of this chapter
by Pub. L. 105–285.
A prior section 676 of Pub. L. 97–35 was classified to
section 9905 of this title, prior to the general amend-
ment of this chapter by Pub. L. 105–285.
AMENDMENTS
2014—Subsec. (b)(5). Pub. L. 113–128 substituted ‘‘the
eligible entities will coordinate the provision of em-
ployment and training activities, as defined in section
3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, in
the State and in communities with entities providing
activities through statewide and local workforce devel-
opment systems under such Act’’ for ‘‘the eligible enti-
ties will coordinate the provision of employment and
training activities, as defined in section 101 of such
Act, in the State and in communities with entities pro-
viding activities through statewide and local workforce
investment systems under the Workforce Investment
Act of 1998’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2014 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 113–128 effective on the first
day of the first full program year after July 22, 2014
(July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out
as an Effective Date note under section 3101 of Title 29,
Labor.
§ 9909. Designation and redesignation of eligible
entities in unserved areas
(a) Qualified organization in or near area
(1) In general
If any geographic area of a State is not, or
ceases to be, served by an eligible entity under
this chapter, and if the chief executive officer
of the State decides to serve such area, the
chief executive officer may solicit applications
from, and designate as an eligible entity—
(A)
a
private
nonprofit
organization
(which may include an eligible entity) that
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