[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 214 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 214

 To amend the Social Security Act to reinstate requirements regarding 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development access to certain 
 information of State agencies, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
  of 1986 to allow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to 
    reveal certain income tax return information to public housing 
                   agencies, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

 Mr. Knollenberg introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
 the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 
    Banking and Financial Services, 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.

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Social Security Act to reinstate requirements regarding 
     Department of Housing and Urban Development access to certain 
 information of State agencies, and to amend the Internal Revenue Code 
  of 1986 to allow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to 
    reveal certain income tax return information to public housing 
                   agencies, 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 ``Public Housing Tenant Integrity Act 
of 1997''.

SEC. 2. REINSTITUTION OF REQUIREMENTS REGARDING HUD ACCESS TO CERTAIN 
              INFORMATION OF STATE AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (i) of section 303 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 503(i)) is amended by striking paragraph (5).
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to requests for information made after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY HUD TO PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (7) of section 6103(l) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to confidentiality and disclosure of 
returns and return information) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Return information from department of housing 
                and urban development.--
                            ``(i) In general.--The Secretary of Housing 
                        and Urban Development may, upon written request 
                        by any public housing agency administering a 
                        program described in subparagraph (D)(ix), 
                        disclose return information from returns which 
                        have been disclosed to the Department of 
                        Housing and Urban Development under this 
                        paragraph to such public housing agency.
                            ``(ii) Restriction on disclosure.--The 
                        Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
                        shall disclose return information under this 
                        subparagraph only for purposes of, and to the 
                        extent necessary in, determining eligibility 
                        for, or the correct amount of, benefits under a 
                        program referred to in subparagraph (D)(ix).
                            ``(iii) Public housing agency.--For 
                        purposes of this paragraph, the term `public 
                        housing agency' has the meaning given such term 
                        by section 3(b) of the United States Housing 
                        Act of 1937.''
    (b) Repeal of Termination Regarding Housing Assistance Programs.--
Subparagraph (D) of section 6103(l)(7) of such Code is amended by 
striking the last sentence.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Clause (ix) of section 6103(l)(7)(D) of 
such Code is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(or, for purposes of subparagraph (E), 
        by a public housing agency)'' after ``Secretary of Housing and 
        Urban Development'', and
            (2) by inserting ``or a public housing agency'' after 
        ``Department of Housing and Urban Development'' the second 
        place that it appears.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to requests for information made after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.

SEC. 3. CONSENT TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION AND PROTECTIONS AGAINST 
              IMPROPER USE OF INFORMATION.

    Section 904 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 3544) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(3)--
                    (A) by inserting after ``participant'' the 
                following: ``, and authorizing the Secretary to release 
                information pursuant to section 6103(l)(7)(E) of such 
                Act with respect to such applicant or participant,''; 
                and
                    (B) by inserting ``or public housing agency (as 
                applicable)'' before ``verifying''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter preceding 
                clause (i)--
                            (i) by striking ``section 
                        6103(l)(7)(D)(ix)'' and inserting 
                        ``subparagraph (D)(ix) or (E) of section 
                        6103(l)(7)'';
                            (ii) by striking ``or the Secretary of the 
                        Treasury'' and inserting ``, the Secretary of 
                        the Treasury, or the Secretary of Housing and 
                        Urban Development''; and
                            (iii) by inserting ``or 6103(l)(7)(E)'' 
                        after ``such section 303(i)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``section 
                6103(l)(7)(D)(ix)'' each place it appears and inserting 
                ``subparagraph (D)(ix) or (E) of section 6103(l)(7)''.
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