[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6714 Introduced in House (IH)]
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116th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6714
To provide assistance to pay off rental arrearages of low- and
moderate-income households accruing during the public health emergency
relating to coronavirus, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 5, 2020
Mr. Espaillat (for himself and Mr. Garcia of Illinois) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial
Services
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A BILL
To provide assistance to pay off rental arrearages of low- and
moderate-income households accruing during the public health emergency
relating to coronavirus, 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 ``Subsidizing Tenant Arrears Yet
Helping Owners with Mortgages Emergency Act of 2020'' or the ``STAY
HOME Act of 2020''.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
In addition to any other amounts made available for fiscal year
2020 for grants under the Emergency Solutions Grants program under
subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.), there is authorized to be appropriated
$25,000,000,000 for grants under such subtitle made in accordance with
this Act to respond to needs arising from the public health emergency
relating to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).
SEC. 3. ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.
(a) Payments for Rental Arrearages.--Amounts made available
pursuant to section 2 of this Act may be used only to provide payments,
to avoid eviction, on behalf of eligible households under subsection
(b), directly to the owners of dwelling units occupied by such
households, in the amount necessary to pay all or a portion of any
amount of rent for such dwelling unit past due at the time of such
payment and attributable to occupancy at any time during the emergency
declared on March 13, 2020, by the President under the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 4121
et seq.) relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
(b) Eligible Households.--An eligible household under this section
shall be a household that--
(1) has an income that does not exceed 120 percent of the
median income for the area in which the family resides; and
(2) resides in a dwelling unit located in any area that, at
any time during the emergency specified in subsection (a), is
or was subject to an order made by any State or local
government official or agency requiring residents to stay at
home, to stay at home except to the extent necessary, or to
stay at home except to the extent necessary to conduct
essential activities.
(c) Treatment of Credit Scores.--An owner or other lessor of a
dwelling unit for which a payment of rent is made pursuant to this Act
shall not report such payment or assistance to a consumer reporting
agency and the provision of such assistance on behalf of an eligible
household shall not adversely affect the credit score of any member of
such household.
(d) Prohibition.--No grantee of amounts under this Act nor any
State nor local government may require any eligible household to prove
or demonstrate an ability to pay future rent amounts due or to prove or
demonstrate employment, as a condition of assistance under this Act on
behalf of such household.
(e) Treatment.--In applying subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.) with respect to
amounts made available pursuant to section 2 of this Act, any reference
to activities under section 415(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless
Assistance Act shall be considered to include the activity under
subsection (a) of this section.
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