[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 661 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 661

  To make a technical correction to section 214(h) of the Housing and 
                   Community Development Act of 1980.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make a technical correction to section 214(h) of the Housing and 
                   Community Development Act of 1980.

    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 ``Use of Assisted Housing By Aliens 
Technical Correction Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTION OF PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY OPT-OUT 
              AUTHORITY.

    Subsection (h)(2) of section 214 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a(h)(2)), as added by section 
576 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act 
of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104-208), is amended by striking 
subparagraph (A) and inserting the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(A) may elect not to comply with paragraph (1), 
                but only if (i) affirmatively establishing and 
                verifying eligibility before providing assistance would 
                increase public housing vacancies or unused rental 
                assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
                Act of 1937, and (ii) the agency affirmatively 
                establishes and verifies the eligibility under this 
                section after providing the financial assistance; 
                and''.
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