[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 173 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 173

To protect innocent elderly and disabled tenants in public housing and 
housing assisted under the rental assistance program under section 8 of 
   the United States Housing Act of 1937 from eviction by reason of 
                           criminal activity.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2007

   Ms. Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To protect innocent elderly and disabled tenants in public housing and 
housing assisted under the rental assistance program under section 8 of 
   the United States Housing Act of 1937 from eviction by reason of 
                           criminal activity.

    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 ``One Strike and You're Out! Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC HOUSING TENANTS.

    Paragraph (6) of section 6(l) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(l)(6)) is amended by inserting after the first 
semicolon the following: ``except that such criminal or drug-related 
criminal activity, engaged in by a member of a tenant's household or 
any guest or other person under the tenant's control, shall not be 
cause for termination of tenancy of the tenant if (A) the tenant is an 
elderly person (as such term is defined in section 202(k) of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q)) or a person with disabilities 
(as such term is defined in section 811(k) of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(k)), and (B) the tenant 
did not know and should not have known of the activity or the tenant or 
member of household was the victim of the criminal activity; and''.

SEC. 3. TENANTS OF HOUSING ASSISTED UNDER SECTION 8 PROGRAM.

    Clause (iii) of section 8(d)(1)(B) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(d)(1)(B)(iii)) is amended by striking the 
comma before ``except that: (I)'' and inserting the following: ``; 
except that such criminal or drug-related criminal activity, engaged in 
by a member of a tenant's household or any guest or other person under 
the tenant's control, shall not be cause for termination of tenancy of 
the tenant if (I) the tenant is an elderly person (as such term is 
defined in section 202(k) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q)) 
or a person with disabilities (as such term is defined in section 
811(k) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013(k)), and (II) the tenant did not know and should not have 
known of the activity or the tenant or member of household was the 
victim of the criminal activity; and''.

SEC. 4. REPORTING BY PHAS ON ONE-STRIKE EVICTIONS.

    Section 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437d) is amended by inserting after subsection (o) the following new 
subsection:
    ``(p) Reports on One-Strike Evictions.--Each public housing agency 
shall submit a report annually to the Secretary on the number of 
persons whose tenancy in public housing of the agency was terminated, 
and the number whose tenancy in housing assisted by the agency with 
amounts made available under section 8 was terminated, because of 
criminal activity.''.
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