[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 233 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 233


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 24, 2015

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
                           and Urban Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To allow reviews of certain families' incomes every 3 years for 
   purposes of determining eligibility for certain Federal assisted 
                           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 ``Tenant Income Verification Relief 
Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. REVIEWS OF FAMILY INCOMES.

    (a) In General.--The second sentence of paragraph (1) of section 
3(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)(1)) 
is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``; 
except that, in the case of any family with a fixed income, as defined 
by the Secretary, after the initial review of the family's income, the 
public housing agency or owner shall not be required to conduct a 
review of the family's income for any year for which such family 
certifies, in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary shall 
establish, which shall include policies to adjust for inflation-based 
income changes, that 90 percent or more of the income of the family 
consists of fixed income, and that the sources of such income have not 
changed since the previous year, except that the public housing agency 
or owner shall conduct a review of each such family's income not less 
than once every 3 years''.
    (b) Housing Choice Voucher Program.--Subparagraph (A) of section 
8(o)(5) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(5)(A)) is amended by striking ``not less than annually'' and 
inserting ``as required by section 3(a)(1) of this Act''.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 23, 2015.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.