[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4485 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4485

To ensure that public housing dwelling units are occupied by low-income 
                   families, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2016

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To ensure that public housing dwelling units are occupied by low-income 
                   families, 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 ``Fairness in Public Housing Act of 
2016''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF TENANCY OF OVER-INCOME FAMILIES RESIDING IN 
              PUBLIC HOUSING.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 16 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437n(a)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) Termination of tenancy of over-income families 
        residing in public housing.--
                    ``(A) Ineligibility.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraph (C), a public housing agency shall 
                terminate the tenancy of any family residing in a 
                dwelling unit in public housing administered by such 
                agency that is determined, pursuant to an income review 
                conducted in accordance with the second sentence of 
                section 3(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)(1)), to have an 
                income at the time of such determination exceeding 125 
                percent of the area median income, unless, as of the 
                time of such termination, there are no families 
                registered on the waiting list for admission to public 
                housing administered by the agency and no families 
                applying for occupancy in public housing administered 
                by the agency.
                    ``(B) Notice and timing.--Upon an income 
                determination described in subparagraph (A) for a 
                family, the public housing agency shall provide the 
                family with notice of termination of the tenancy of 
                family. Such termination, if required pursuant to 
                subparagraph (A), shall take place upon the expiration 
                of the 90-day period beginning upon the income 
                determination involved.
                    ``(C) Treatment of certain over-income tenants.--
                Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a family occupying 
                a dwelling unit in public housing pursuant to paragraph 
                (5) of section 3(a) (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)(5)).''.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than the expiration of the 90-day 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall issue such regulations 
as may be necessary to implement the amendment made by subsection (a).
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