S.Amdt. 972

SA 972. Ms. ERNST (for herself and Mr. Grassley) 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__.  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:
``(21) 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 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 be required absorb and receive the portable
family by the end of the calendar year in which the portable
family seeks to use the voucher;
``(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
those assistance payments.''.
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