[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3186 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3186

To amend the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to exclude 
      amounts received as a military basic housing allowance from 
   consideration as income for purposes of eligibility for federally 
                 assisted low-income housing programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 2005

 Mr. Ryun of Kansas (for himself, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Mr. Ney, Mr. 
Jones of North Carolina, Mr. Neugebauer, Mr. Reyes, Mr. Ortiz, and Mr. 
   Tiberi) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to exclude 
      amounts received as a military basic housing allowance from 
   consideration as income for purposes of eligibility for federally 
                 assisted low-income housing programs.

    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 ``Build Houses for Our Military's 
Enlisted Servicemembers Act'' or the ``Build HOMES Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN AMOUNTS FROM INCOME FOR PURPOSES OF 
              ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERALLY ASSISTED LOW-INCOME HOUSING 
              PROGRAMS.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act is amended by 
inserting after section 12 (42 U.S.C. 3537a) the following new section:

``SEC. 13. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN AMOUNTS FROM INCOME.

    ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts received by a 
member of the Armed Forces under section 403 of title 37, United States 
Code, as a basic allowance for housing shall not be treated as income 
for purposes of determining, for purposes of any program of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other agency of the 
Federal Government for housing assistance (including any program for 
grants, loans, subsidies, advances, guarantees, credits, or other 
financial assistance), the eligibility of the member or the member's 
family, or a dependent of the member or such dependent's family, for--
            ``(1) assistance under such program; or
            ``(2) occupancy in any dwelling unit in any building or 
        project for which assistance under such program is provided.''.
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