[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2200 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2200

 To deposit civil penalties and assessments collected for false claims 
     and statements made with respect to public housing to a Fraud 
 Compensation Fund at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 22, 2019

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, 
                       Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To deposit civil penalties and assessments collected for false claims 
     and statements made with respect to public housing to a Fraud 
 Compensation Fund at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

    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 for Housing Communities Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. DEPOSITING CIVIL PENALTIES AND ASSESSMENTS RELATING TO FALSE 
              CLAIMS AND STATEMENTS IN FRAUD COMPENSATION FUND.

    Section 3806(g) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F)(i) Any amount of a penalty or assessment 
                imposed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
                Development with respect to a claim or statement made 
                in connection with public housing assistance received 
                under section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 
                1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a) shall be returned to the 
                Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
                    ``(ii) The Secretary may establish a Fraud 
                Compensation Fund that shall consist only of amounts 
                returned to the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
                Development under clause (i).
                    ``(iii) Each distribution from a Fraud Compensation 
                Fund established under clause (ii) shall be allocated 
                to public housing agencies (as defined in section 
                3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
                U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6))) that were defrauded or otherwise 
                affected by a false claim or statement described in 
                clause (i).
                    ``(iv) If the Secretary establishes a Fraud 
                Compensation Fund under clause (ii), the Secretary 
                shall promulgate regulations to establish a formula for 
                allocating the allocations under clause (iii).''.
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