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House Bill 6773
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Databases of Publicly Owned Land Act
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H. R. 6773 (Introduced-in-House)


119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6773


To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require that grantees of the Community Development Block Grant program maintain a database of publicly owned land.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 17, 2025

Ms. Waters introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

A BILL

To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require that grantees of the Community Development Block Grant program maintain a database of publicly owned land.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Databases of Publicly Owned Land Act”.

SEC. 2. Databases of publicly owned land.

(a) In general.—Section 104(b) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304(b)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (5), by striking “and” at the end;

(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(7) the grantee maintains, on a publicly accessible website, a searchable database that identifies all parcels of undeveloped land owned by the grantee.”.

(b) Effective date.—The amendments made by this section shall take effect on October 1, 2026.