[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3490 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3490

To make amounts provided under the Operation Safe Home and New Approach 
  Anti-Drug programs available for use for providing law enforcement 
  officers to patrol and provide security for housing assisted by the 
              Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2001

Mr. Green of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To make amounts provided under the Operation Safe Home and New Approach 
  Anti-Drug programs available for use for providing law enforcement 
  officers to patrol and provide security for housing assisted by the 
              Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    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 ``HUD Housing Security and Flexibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF OPERATION SAFE HOME AND SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD GRANT AMOUNTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
field office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development that 
receives or administers grants amounts under the Operation Safe Home 
program of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development or under the New Approach Anti-Drug 
program of such Department may use such amounts to enter into 
contracts, having terms of not more than 3 years, with law enforcement 
officers or agencies described in subsection (b) to provide security, 
patrols, or other protective services for housing that is owned or held 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or is assisted under 
a program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and is 
within the jurisdiction or purview of such field office.
    (b) Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies.--A law enforcement 
officer or agency described in this subsection is a law enforcement 
officer that is authorized, under Federal or State law, to make 
arrests, or a public agency whose officers have such authority.
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