[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2308 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2308

    To amend the Fair Housing Act to assure the power of States and 
    localities to limit group homes for recovering drug and alcohol 
                                abusers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 1997

  Mr. McDade introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Fair Housing Act to assure the power of States and 
    localities to limit group homes for recovering drug and alcohol 
                                abusers.

    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 ``Residential Neighborhood 
Preservation Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITY WITH RESPECT TO GROUP HOMES.

    Section 807 of the Fair Housing Act (42. U.S.C. 3607) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Nothing in section 804(f) shall prohibit any local, State, or 
Federal limitation on the placement in a residential area of any group 
home for persons who are recovering drug or alcohol abusers.''.
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