US Congress House Bill 4690 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 47-0)
Status: Introduced on February 25 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Livable Communities Act of 2010 - Establishes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) an Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC). Establishes in the executive branch an independent Interagency Council on Sustainable Communities. Requires the OSHC Director to establish a program to make comprehensive planning grants and sustainability challenge grants to eligible entities (partnerships between a consortium of units of general local government and an eligible partner, which may be a metropolitan planning organization, a rural planning organization, a regional council, or a state). Requires the use of a comprehensive planning grant to carry out a project to: (1) coordinate land use, housing, transportation, and infrastructure planning processes across jurisdictions and agencies; (2) identify potential regional partnerships for developing and implementing a comprehensive regional plan; (3) conduct or update housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy, and environmental assessments to determine regional needs and promote sustainable development; (4) develop or update a comprehensive regional plan or goals and strategies to implement an existing comprehensive regional plan; and (5) implement local zoning and other code changes necessary to implement a comprehensive regional plan and promote sustainable development. Requires the use of a sustainability challenge grant to: (1) promote integrated transportation, housing, energy, and economic development activities carried out across policy and governmental jurisdictions; (2) promote sustainable and location-efficient development; and (3) implement projects identified in a comprehensive regional plan. Directs the OSHC Director to study and report to specified congressional committees on incentives for encouraging lenders to make, and homebuyers and homeowners to participate in, energy-efficient mortgages and location-efficient mortgages.

Livable Communities Act of 2010

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO]
Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]	Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Joe Courtney [D-CT]	Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]	Rep. Al Green [D-TX]	Rep. Deborah Halvorson [D-IL]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]	Rep. Paul Hodes [D-NH]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]
Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Steve Kagen [D-WI]	Rep. Dale Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. John Larson [D-CT]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. Daniel Maffei [D-NY]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. George Miller [D-CA]	Rep. James Moran [D-VA]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Rep. Ed Pastor [D-AZ]	Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D-CO]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]
Rep. Allyson Schwartz [D-PA]	Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Rep. Anthony Weiner [D-NY]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-26		Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2010-02-26		Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
2010-02-25		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2010-02-25		Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2010-02-25		Referred to House Financial Services
2010-02-25		Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

SB1619 (Related) 2010-12-19 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 716.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/4690/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr4690/BILLS-111hr4690ih.pdf