[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1705 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1705

  To amend the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to require 
  public notice and local hearings before property is made available 
 under that Act for use to assist the homeless, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 1995

  Mrs. Smith of Washington (for herself and Mr. Tate) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to require 
  public notice and local hearings before property is made available 
 under that Act for use to assist the homeless, and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community and Homeless Cooperation 
Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO STEWART B. MCKINNEY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE ACT.

    Section 501(e) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11411(e)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);
            (2) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated) by striking ``No 
        later than 25 days after receipt of a completed application,'' 
        and inserting ``No later than 25 days after holding a public 
        hearing under paragraph (3) on an application,''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
    ``(3)(A) After receiving a completed application, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall--
            ``(i) promptly publish notice of the application in the 
        Federal Register; and
            ``(ii) after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the 
        date of publication of such notice, hold a public hearing on 
        the application in the vicinity of the property that is the 
        subject of the application.
    ``(B) Before approving an application under this subsection, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine whether existing 
facilities for the homeless in the community where the property that is 
the subject of the application is located are unutilized or 
underutilized.
    ``(C) If the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines 
under subparagraph (B) that existing facilities are unutilized or 
underutilized--
            ``(i) the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall--
                    ``(I) dispose of the property with respect to which 
                the determination is made by sale; and
                    ``(II) make available to those existing facilities 
                40 percent of amounts received by the United States as 
                proceeds of that sale; and
            ``(ii) the remainder of those proceeds shall be deposited 
        into the general fund of the Treasury and applied only to 
        reduce the deficit.''.
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