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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Majette, Denise L. [D-GA-4]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Bringing America Home Act - Recognizes housing as a basic human right, and declares Congress' goal to end homelessness in the Unites States.</p> <p>Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to establish the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which shall be used to fund specified housing and related programs.</p> <p>Authorizes appropriations for specified housing and related programs.</p> <p>Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association Act - Establishes the Federal Homelessness to Housing Mutual Mortgage Association (Hollie May), which shall provide housing and homeownership opportunities for the homeless in cooperative housing associations.</p> <p>Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to: (1) provide for the use of surplus Federal property to assist the homeless; and (2) revise and consolidate specified homeless assistance programs.</p> <p>Establishes in the Treasury the Emergency Rent Relief Fund.</p> <p>Exempts work performed in public housing from consideration as income under specified housing programs. Sets forth conditions for postal delivery service for the homeless. Authorizes grants for public housing police forces.</p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a temporary ex-offender low-income housing credit; (2) limit mortgage interest deductions; and (3) repeal the exclusion of gain on a principal residence sale.</p> <p>Expresses the sense of Congress against local ordinances that disadvantage the homeless.</p> <p>Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) every person in the United States should have access to affordable and comprehensive medical care; and (2) Medicaid should be expanded.</p> <p>Authorizes appropriations for specified health and homeless programs.</p> <p>Amends the Public Health Service Act, with respect to substance abuse, mental health services, and the homeless, to: (1) require the establishment of Federal plans on addiction, mental illness, HIV/AIDS, and homelessness; (2) provide grants for treatment; (3) revise the projects for assistance in transition from homelessness (PATH) program; (4) revise the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990.</p> <p>Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding the right to a living wage or similar benefits.</p> <p>Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize grants for a homebuild program for affordable housing construction and apprenticeship.</p> <p>Authorizes a Department of Labor apprenticeship program for working people experiencing homelessness.</p> <p>Sets forth day laborer and temporary worker employment and related provisions.</p> <p>Amends the Social Security Act to: (1) require supplemental security income (SSI) and old age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) outreach programs for the homeless; and (2) increase SSI asset limits, and provide presumptive eligibility for persons experiencing or at risk of homelessness.</p>]]></text>
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