A bill to reform and consolidate the public and assisted housing programs of the United States, and to redirect primary responsibility for these programs from the Federal Government to States and localities, and for other purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: General Provisions
Title II: Public Housing
Subtitle A: Block Grants
Subtitle B: Admissions and Occupancy Requirements
Subtitle C: Management
Subtitle D: Homeownership
Subtitle E: Disposition, Demolition, and Revitalization
of Developments
Subtitle F: General Provisions
Title III: Choice-Based Rental Housing and Homeownership
Assistance for Low-Income Families
Subtitle A: Allocation
Subtitle B: Choice-Based Housing Assistance for
Eligible Families
Subtitle C: Payment of Housing Assistance on Behalf of
Assisted Families
Subtitle D: General and Miscellaneous Provisions
Title IV: Accreditation and Oversight of Local Housing and
Management Authorities
Subtitle A: Housing Foundation and Accreditation Board
Subtitle B: Accreditation and Oversight Standards and
Procedures
Title V: Repeals and Conforming Amendments
Title VI: National Commission on Housing Assistance Programs
Cost
Title VII: Native American Housing Assistance
Subtitle A: Block Grants and Grant Requirements
Subtitle B: Affordable Housing Activities
Subtitle C: Allocation of Grant Amounts
Subtitle D: Compliance, Audits, and Reports
Subtitle E: Termination of Assistance for Indian Tribes
under Incorporated Programs
Subtitle F: Loan Guarantees for Affordable Housing
Activities
Subtitle G: Other Housing Assistance for Native
Americans
Title VIII: National Manufactured Housing Construction and
Safety Standards Consensus Committee
United States Housing Act of 1996 - Title I: General Provisions - Provides for the organization of local housing and management authorities (LHMA) to manage and operate public and assisted housing.
Limits housing assistance eligibility and admission of those convicted of drug-related criminal activity and of drug or alcohol abusers. Establishes community work and family self-sufficiency requirements.
(Sec. 115) Prohibits using funds under this Act to indemnify contractors or subcontractors against costs regarding infringement of intellectual property rights.
Title II: Public Housing - Subtitle A: Block Grants - Directs the Secretary to provide eligible LHMAs with block grant funding for capital and operating activities.
Subtitle B: Admissions and Occupancy Requirements - Establishes low-income housing requirements. Authorizes LHMAs to: (1) permit income-mixed occupancy; (2) waive occupancy requirements for law enforcement personnel; (3) establish occupancy preferences; and (4) designate housing for elderly and disabled families.
Subtitle C: Management - Sets forth LHMA management provisions, including regarding: (1) management by other entities, including resident-requested independent managers; (2) housing quality requirements; and (3) resident councils and management corporations.
Subtitle D: Homeownership - Authorizes LHMAs to carry out a low-income family home ownership program.
Subtitle E: Disposition, Demolition, and Revitalization of Developments - Authorizes LHMAs to demolish or dispose of nonviable public housing projects.
(Sec. 262) Authorizes severely distressed public housing revitalization grants. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 263) Allows LHMAs to convert a development to choice-based rental housing under this Act.
Subtitle F: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) capital and operating block grants; and (2) operation safe home relocations.
Title III: Choice-Based Rental Housing and Homeownership Assistance for Low-Income Families - Subtitle A: Allocation - Authorizes contracts with LHMAs for housing assistance for low-income families. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the conversion of certain unused section 8 assistance (United States Housing Act of 1937) to housing assistance under this title.
Subtitle B: Choice-Based Housing Assistance for Eligible Families - Provides housing assistance under this title only to: (1) low-income families; or (2) families that qualify to receive such assistance under other Federal law.
(Sec. 329) Authorizes LHMAs to: (1) provide a home ownership option; and (2) make assistance payments involving manufactured homes.
Subtitle C: Payment of Housing Assistance on Behalf of Assisted Families - Authorizes LHMAs to make housing assistance payments contracts with unit owners.
Subtitle D: General and Miscellaneous Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title.
(Sec. 372) Authorizes rental assistance fraud recoveries.
Title IV: Accreditation and Oversight of Local Housing and Management Authorities - Subtitle A: Housing Foundation and Accreditation Board - Establishes the Housing Foundation and Accreditation Board to: (1) evaluate deep subsidy housing programs; (2) establish LHMA performance standards; (3) develop effective LHMA financial and performance audits; (4) establish LHMA accreditation guidelines; and (5) classify LHMAs by performance categories.
Subtitle B: Accreditation and Oversight Standards and Procedures - Directs the Board to establish LHMA performance benchmarks and accreditation procedures.
(Sec. 435) Directs the Secretary to seek performance agreements with agencies that are troubled or at risk of becoming troubled. Authorizes redirecting or withholding funds from local governments whose actions substantially contribute to an LHMA being designated as troubled.
(Sec. 437) Authorizes block grant contracts (under title II) to provide for conveyance of title or possession to the Secretary in cases of substantial default.
(Sec. 438) Authorizes removal of ineffective LHMAs.
(Sec. 439) Directs the Secretary to either take over or contract out the management of chronically troubled LHMAs.
(Sec. 440) Provides that a State or local government comprehensive housing affordability strategy shall not be in compliance with provisions of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act unless it includes provisions to improve any troubled public housing agency in its area.
(Sec. 443) Applies this subtitle to resident management corporations.
Title V: Repeals and Conforming Amendments - Repeals the United States Housing Act of 1937. Repeals specified program provisions under: (1) the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; (2) the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; (3) the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987; (4) the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992; (5) the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993; (6) the Housing Act of 1954; (7) the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1981; (8) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Act, 1992; (10) the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983; and (11) the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.
(Sec. 502) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 with regard to elderly housing assistance.
Declares that, for determining assisted housing eligibility, a person does not have a disability or handicap solely because of the use of a controlled substance or alcohol.
Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 regarding pet ownership in assisted rental housing for the elderly or handicapped.
Directs the Secretary to investigate security contracts awarded by grantees with over 4,500 units under the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990. Mandates actions regarding non- compliant contracts.
Provides for reductions in the number of units assisted under contracts under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and section 236 of the National Housing Act.
(Sec. 503) Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to replace the drug elimination pilot program with an expanded program of crime elimination grants for public and other low-income federally assisted housing.
Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 504) Deems rehabilitation activities by Pennrose Properties in New Jersey to have been conducted under specified provisions of the United States Housing Act of 1937.
(Sec. 505) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to: (1) modify the definition of "metropolitan city;" and (2) extend an exception for the City and County of Los Angeles regarding the provision of public services.
(Sec. 506) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to allow the transfer of surplus real property to nonprofit organizations that exist to provide housing for homeless or low-income individuals or families.
(Sec. 507) Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to deem the city of Altus, Oklahoma, a rural area.
(Sec. 508) Presumes State occupancy standards reasonable and, in the absence of State standards, presumes two persons per bedroom reasonable.
(Sec. 509) Mandates implementation of the Ida Barbour Revitalization Plan of Portsmouth, Virginia.
(Sec. 510) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to modify income requirements.
(Sec. 511) Amends National Housing Act provisions relating to rental and cooperative housing for lower income families to modify rental requirements.
(Sec. 512) Amends Federal law to declare that an obligation containing a gold clause issued on or before October 27, 1977, is discharged on payment in U.S. coin or currency, notwithstanding any assignment or novation (or both) after that date, unless all parties agree to a gold clause in the new agreement.
(Sec. 513) Mandates a demonstration program, involving LHMAs and Indian housing authorities, focusing on reducing costs, achieving greater cost effectiveness, and giving incentives to families with children where the head of the household is working (or seeking or preparing for work).
(Sec. 514) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize denial of federally assisted housing occupancy for tenants who were, during the last three years, engaged in criminal activity on or off the premises. Allows requiring applicants to consent to criminal record access.
Sets forth tenancy termination causes. Allows criminal record access.
(Sec. 515) Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that products purchased with this Act's funds should be American made.
(Sec. 516) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to limit the amount obtained from obligations guaranteed under specified provisions that may be used for certain housing purposes.
(Sec. 517) Mandates consultation with local governments and LHMAs before settlement or consent decree under title III of this Act or the United States Housing Act of 1937, as in effect before this Act.
Title VI: National Commission on Housing Assistance Programs Cost - Establishes the National Commission on Housing Assistance Programs Cost to: (1) analyze the per-unit cost to Federal, State, and local governments, public housing agencies, and other parties, of Federal assisted housing programs; and (2) estimate the future taxpayer liability under Federal assisted housing programs before enactment of this Act. Makes available funds from the amounts available for policy, research, and development activities of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Title VII: Native American Housing Assistance - Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 - Subtitle A: Block Grants and Grant Requirements - Mandates grants to Indian tribes for affordable housing activities. Permits retention of program income. Authorizes appropriations.
Subtitle B: Affordable Housing Activities - Sets forth national objectives concerning Indian tribe affordable housing activities. Defines eligible activities, including acquisition, construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation. Requires maintenance of operating assistance. Permits using grant amounts through certain investments.
Subtitle C: Allocation of Grant Amounts - Provides for grant allocation.
Subtitle D: Compliance, Audits, and Reports - Provides for compliance, audits, and reports.
Subtitle E: Termination of Assistance for Indian Tribes under Incorporated Programs - Terminates, for Indian tribes, public and new rental housing assistance provided under the United States Housing Act of 1937.
(Sec. 763) Terminates Indian housing assistance by amending the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Youthbuild and HOME programs), the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (emergency shelter and rural homelessness grant programs), and the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (Innovative Homeless Initiatives Demonstration Program).
Subtitle F: Loan Guarantees for Affordable Housing Activities - Authorizes: (1) guarantees for tribal obligations issued to finance affordable housing activities; and (2) grants for interest costs.
(Sec. 603) Requires that the interest paid on any loan guarantee be included in gross income for tax purposes.
(Sec. 606) Limits the aggregate principal amount the Secretary may guarantee for FY 1997 through 2001. Authorizes appropriations.
Subtitle G: Other Housing Assistance for Native Americans - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize guarantees of housing loans to Indian tribes. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to authorize the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) to guarantee the loans.
(Sec. 782) Allows Indian owners to lease for a 50-year term any restricted Indian lands.
(Sec. 783) Authorizes appropriations for training and technical assistance to Indian housing authorities and tribally designated housing entities.
Title VIII: National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Consensus Committee - National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1996 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to mandate a consensus committee for maintenance and revision of Federal manufactured home construction and safety standards.
Repeals provisions establishing the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.
Laid on the table. See S. 1260 for further action. (consideration: CR H4753)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Held at the desk.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 426. (consideration: CR H4738-4753)
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2406 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Providing for the consideration of the bill in the Committee of the Whole. Bill is open to amendments. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Banking now printed in the bill. Amendment shall be considered by title rather than by section. Prior to consideration of any other amendment, it shall be in order to consider a Lazio amendment printed in the Congressional Record of May 7, 1996, debatable for 10 minutes and not subject to further amendment. If that amendment is adopted, the bill, as amended, shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment. After passage of the bill, it shall be in order to ta...
The House struck all after the enacting clause and inserted in lieu thereof the provisions of a similar measure H.R. 2406. Agreed to without objection.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
On passage Passed without objection.
A similar measure H.R. 2406 was laid on the table without objection.
The title of the measure was amended to that of similar measure H.R. 2406. Agreed to without objection.
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Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Mr. Lazio asked unanimous consent that the House insist upon its amendments, and request a conference.
On motion that the House insist upon its amendments, and request a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H4753)
The Speaker appointed conferees: Leach, Lazio, Bereuter, Baker (LA), Castle, Gonzalez, Vento, and Kennedy (MA).
The clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the House amendment to S. 1260.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill House requests a conference.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate disagreed to the House amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Senate disagreed to the House amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Senate agreed to request for conference. Appointed conferees. D'Amato; Mack; Faircloth; Bond; Sarbanes; Kerry; Moseley-Braun. (consideration: CR S9208)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.