[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3679 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3679

To prohibit any increase in the amount of a security deposit paid by a 
   low-income family for rental of a dwelling unit receiving Federal 
  rental housing assistance during the occupancy of the family in the 
                                 unit.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 1996

  Mrs. Mink introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit any increase in the amount of a security deposit paid by a 
   low-income family for rental of a dwelling unit receiving Federal 
  rental housing assistance during the occupancy of the family in the 
                                 unit.

    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 ``Low-Income Housing Tenants Security 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF SECURITY DEPOSIT INCREASES.

    During the occupancy of a tenant in a covered dwelling unit, the 
tenant may not be required to pay as a security deposit (in connection 
with the rental of the dwelling unit) any amount in addition to the 
amount required to be paid upon initial occupancy of the dwelling unit 
or upon execution of the initial lease for the dwelling unit. This 
section may not be construed to limit any authority to provide for 
payment of a security deposit in connection with the rental of a 
covered dwelling unit under any gradual or installment payment plan.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act, the following definitions shall apply:
            (1) Covered dwelling unit.--The term ``covered dwelling 
        unit'' means any dwelling unit--
                    (A) for which financial assistance is provided 
                under a rental housing assistance program; or
                    (B) that--
                            (i) is located in a building for which 
                        assistance is provided under a rental housing 
                        assistance program; and
                            (ii) pursuant to such program, is subject 
                        to occupancy limitations based on the income of 
                        the tenant.
            (2) Rental housing assistance program.--The term ``rental 
        housing assistance program'' means--
                    (A) the rural rental housing loan program under 
                section 515 of the Housing Act of 1949;
                    (B) the rural rental assistance payments program 
                under section 521(a)(2);
                    (C) the tenant-based rental assistance programs 
                under subsections (b) and (o) of section 8 of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937;
                    (D) the programs for project-based rental 
                assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
                Act of 1937 (including the project-based certificate 
                program, the loan management set-aside program, and the 
                property disposition program);
                    (E) the new construction or substantial 
                rehabilitation program under section 8(b)(2) of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937 (as in effect before 
                October 1, 1983);
                    (F) the moderate rehabilitation program under 
                section 8(e)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 
                1937;
                    (G) section 23 of the United States Housing Act of 
                1937 (as in effect before January 1, 1975);
                    (H) the preservation program under the Emergency 
                Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-
                Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership 
                Act of 1990;
                    (I) the rent supplement program under section 101 
                of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;
                    (J) section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act; 
                and
                    (K) the public and Indian housing programs under 
                the United States Housing Act of 1937.

SEC. 4. APPLICABILITY.

    This Act shall apply to any tenant occupying a covered dwelling 
unit upon the date of the enactment of this Act or thereafter.
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