S.Amdt. 4015

SA 4015. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr.
Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in division A, insert the
following:
Sec. __. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
shall require each public housing agency that administers
public housing (as defined in section 3 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a)) or housing assisted
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437f) to remove and replace, in each dwelling unit in
which a child under the age of 9 resides, window coverings
with accessible cords exceeding 8 inches in length and window
coverings with continuous loops or beads.
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall
require public housing agencies to phase out window coverings
with accessible cords exceeding 8 inches in length and window
coverings with continuous loops or beads that do not contain
a cord tension device that prohibits operation when not
anchored to a wall from dwelling units in public housing (as
defined in section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437a)) and housing assisted under section 8 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) not
later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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