S.Amdt. 1164

SA 1164. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Menendez)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 948
proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making appropriations for
the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II of division D, insert
the following:

Sec. 2__. (a) Each public housing agency, in public housing
owned or operated by the public housing agency, and each
owner of a dwelling unit receiving project-based or tenant-
based assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), section 202(j) of the Housing
Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(j)), section 811(j) of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C.
8013(j)), or section 856 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12905) shall ensure that
carbon monoxide alarms are installed in each dwelling unit in
a manner that meets or exceeds the standards described in
chapters 9 and 11 of the 2018 publication of the
International Fire Code, as published by the International
Code Council,

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or any other standards as may be adopted by the Secretary,
including any relevant updates to the International Fire
Code, through a notice published in the Federal Register.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt
or limit the applicability of any State or local law relating
to the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide alarms
in housing that requires standards that are more stringent
than the standards described in this section.
(c) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall
provide guidance to public housing agencies on how to educate
tenants on health hazards in the home, including carbon
monoxide poisoning, lead poisoning, asthma induced by
housing-related allergens, and other housing-related
preventable outcomes, to help advance primary prevention and
prevent future deaths and other harms.
(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in
consultation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
shall conduct a study and issue a publicly available report
on requiring carbon monoxide alarms in Federally assisted
housing that is not covered by this section.
(e) In this section, the terms ``public housing'' and
``public housing agency'' have the meanings given those terms
in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42
U.S.C. 1437a(b)).
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