A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States and to local governments for the purpose of providing emergency assistance to the homeless.
Homeless Assistance Act of 1983 - Authorizes a State formula grant program for assistance to the homeless. Bases funding on a formula which includes the numbers of persons below the poverty line, unemployed, evicted, and deinstitutionalized. Requires 70 percent of a State's grant to go to municipalities with populations over 250,000. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to draw up a list ranking all States according to need for such assistance. Provides for State comment on such list and for its annual revision. Prescribes grant application procedures.
Authorizes a separate program of matching grants to States and local governments for assistance to the homeless, for which local governments may apply directly.
Establishes a one-year Homeless Assistance Advisory Committee in the Department of Health and Human Services. Authorizes appropriations.
Authorizes grant appropriations through FY 1986.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.
Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition.
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