SA 1022. Mr. CASEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 896, to prevent mortgage foreclosures and enhance mortgage credit availability; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title I of the amendment, add the following:
SEC. 105. NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM REFINEMENTS.
(a) In General.--Section 2301(c) of the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 (42 U.S.C. 5301 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(4) FORECLOSURE PREVENTION.--For any amounts appropriated under the heading `Community Development Fund' of title XII of division A of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5; 123 Stat. 217), each State and unit of general local government that receives an allocation of any such amounts pursuant to section 2302 may use up to 10 percent of such amounts for foreclosure prevention programs, activities, and services, as such programs, activities, and services
are defined by the Secretary, provided that the State or unit of general local government discloses, in its application for such amounts, its intentions to use such amounts for such foreclosure prevention purposes.''.
(b) Retroactive Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on the date of enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.


(As printed in the Congressional Record for the Senate on Apr 30, 2009.)