Public Housing Disaster Relief Act of 2008

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Public Housing Disaster Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds. Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development set-aside up to 2% of annual appropriations to provide assistance for emergencies and other disasters, and housing needs resulting from any litigation settlement, including a specified allocation to the Operation Safe Home program, administered by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for law enforcement efforts to combat violent crime on or near the premises of public and federally assisted housing.

(Currently such funds may be used for emergency assistance for any eligible use under the Operating Fund or the Capital Fund, or for tenant-based assistance).

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 6276 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6276

    To repeal section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2008

 Mr. Cazayoux (for himself, Mr. Childers, Ms. Waters, Mr. Thompson of 
Mississippi, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Cuellar, and Mrs. Capito) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To repeal section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937.

    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 ``Public Housing Disaster Relief Act 
of 2008''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL.

    Section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g) is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (k); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (l), (m), and (n) as 
        subsections (k), (l), and (m), respectively.
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