[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2602 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2602

To provide for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to fund, 
 on a 1-year emergency basis, certain requests for grant renewal under 
the programs for permanent supportive housing and shelter-plus-care for 
                           homeless persons.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2000

Ms. Snowe (for herself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
                           and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to fund, 
 on a 1-year emergency basis, certain requests for grant renewal under 
the programs for permanent supportive housing and shelter-plus-care for 
                           homeless persons.

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

SECTION 1. EMERGENCY FUNDING OF RENEWAL REQUESTS FOR HOMELESS HOUSING 
              GRANTS.

    (a) Authority.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from 
any amounts made available for fiscal year 2000 for assistance under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) 
that are unobligated as of the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, for each request 
described in subsection (b), make a 1-year grant to the entity making 
the request in the amount under subsection (c).
    (b) Eligible Renewal Requests.--A request described in this 
subsection is a request for a grant under subtitle C of title IV of the 
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) 
for permanent housing for homeless persons with disabilities or 
subtitle F of such title (42 U.S.C. 11403 et seq.) that--
            (1) was submitted in accordance with the eligibility 
        requirements established by the Secretary and pursuant to the 
        notice of funding availability for fiscal year 1999 covering 
        such programs, but was not approved;
            (2) was made by an entity that received such a grant 
        pursuant to the notice of funding availability for a previous 
        fiscal year; and
            (3) requested renewal of funding made under such previous 
        grant for use for eligible activities because funding under 
        such previous grant expires during calendar year 2000.
    (c) Grant Amount.--The amount under this subsection is the amount 
necessary, as determined by the Secretary, to renew funding for the 
eligible activities under the grant request for a period of only 1 
year, taking into consideration the amount of funding requested for the 
first year of funding under the grant request.
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