S. 1091

119 S1091 IS: Rural Housing Accessibility Act
 U.S. Senate
 2025-03-24
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 II  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  S. 1091  IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   March 24, 2025   Ms. Ernst  (for herself and  Mr. Grassley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs    A BILL
To require certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in housing choice vouchers, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Rural Housing Accessibility Act  .
2.
Requiring certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in vouchers and limiting billing initial public housing agencies beyond 12 months
Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(23)
Portability of vouchers
(A)
Definitions
In this paragraph—
(i)
the term  covered public housing agency  means a public housing agency that, in a given fiscal year, utilizes less than 95 percent of the budget authority available to the public housing agency;
(ii)
the term  initial public housing agency  has the meaning given the term  initial PHA  in section 982.4 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation; and
(iii)
the term  portable family  means a family holding a voucher under this subsection that seeks to rent a dwelling unit outside of the jurisdiction of the initial public housing agency.
(B)
Requirement
A covered public housing agency that has jurisdiction over the area in which a portable family is seeking to use the voucher received from an initial public housing agency—
(i)
shall notify the initial public housing agency whether the covered public housing agency will—
(I)
absorb the voucher by using funds of the covered public housing agency; or
(II)
bill the initial public housing agency for a period of not more than 12 months;
(ii)
shall make assistance payments to the portable family under an annual contributions contract entered into between the covered public housing agency and the Secretary; and
(iii)
may not bill the initial public housing agency for the assistance payments described in clause (ii) for a period of more than 12 months beginning on the effective date of the initial billing.
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