[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3117 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3117

To provide enhanced voucher rental assistance for residents of certain 
     federally assisted low-income housing, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 7, 2009

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide enhanced voucher rental assistance for residents of certain 
     federally assisted low-income housing, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Georgetowne Houses Preservation Act 
of 2009''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN ASSISTED HOUSING 
              RESIDENTS.

    (a) Enhanced Voucher Assistance.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, contract, or covenant, and subject only to the 
availability of amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts--
            (1) upon the expiration, pursuant to paragraph (2), of the 
        use restrictions applicable to the covered properties pursuant 
        to the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 
        (12 U.S.C. 1715l note), each family who is an eligible low-
        income or moderate income family, as such terms are used for 
        purposes of section 223(f)(2)(A) of the Low-Income Housing 
        Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990 (12 U.S.C. 
        4113(f)(2)(A)), and, as of such expiration, is residing in a 
        dwelling unit in the covered properties not covered by project-
        based rental assistance, shall be offered enhanced voucher 
        assistance under section 8(t) of the United States Housing Act 
        of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), and each such family who chooses 
        to remain in the covered properties shall have three years from 
        the date of the issuance of such enhanced voucher to commence 
        use of the voucher;
            (2) such use restrictions applicable to the covered 
        properties shall be deemed to expire on March 1, 2010, but only 
        if the owner of the covered properties enters into agreements 
        with the Secretary to maintain the project-based rental 
        assistance for the properties for a period beginning upon such 
        expiration of not fewer than 20 years; and
            (3) the contract rents for dwelling units in the covered 
        properties covered by project-based rental assistance shall be 
        determined during the period ending upon the expiration of such 
        use restrictions pursuant to paragraph (2) based upon the rents 
        for comparable unassisted and unrestricted units in the area in 
        which the covered properties are located; except that before 
        May 1, 2012, the rental assistance payments for such project-
        based units in the covered property known as Georgetowne Houses 
        II shall be restricted to the rent levels provided under the 
        Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987.
    (b) Covered Properties.--For purposes of this section, the term 
``covered properties'' means the housing developments known as 
Georgetowne Houses I and II (formerly identified by FHA project nos. 
023-55058 and 023-55179), located in Boston, Massachusetts.
    (c) Funding.--Amounts for the enhanced vouchers pursuant to this 
section shall be provided under amounts appropriated for tenant-based 
rental assistance otherwise authorized under section 8(t) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937.
    (d) Applicability.--This section shall take effect upon enactment 
and nothing in this section may be construed to require any 
administrative guidance.
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