[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 605 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 605

To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require certain legal 
  aliens to reside in the United States for a period of 5 consecutive 
 years to be eligible for a preference for occupancy in public housing 
           or for the provision of rental housing assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 1995

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require certain legal 
  aliens to reside in the United States for a period of 5 consecutive 
 years to be eligible for a preference for occupancy in public housing 
           or for the provision of rental housing assistance.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PUBLIC HOUSING PREFERENCES.

    Section 6(c)(4)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437d(c)(4)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (iii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after clause (iv) the following new 
        clause:
                            ``(v) prohibit any alien described in 
                        subsection (a) of section 214 of the Housing 
                        and Community Development Act of 1980 from 
                        having a preference under any provision of this 
                        subparagraph unless such alien has maintained 
                        continuous residence in the States for not less 
                        than 5 years;''.

SEC. 2. RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE PREFERENCES.

    Section 8(d)(1)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(d)(1)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iii), by inserting ``and'' after the 
        semicolon at the end; and
            (3) by adding after clause (iii) the following new clause:
                    ``(iv) prohibit any alien described in subsection 
                (a) of section 214 of the Housing and Community 
                Development Act of 1980 from having a preference under 
                any provision of this subparagraph unless such alien 
                has maintained continuous residence in the States for 
                not less than 5 years;''.
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