[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6905 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6905

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish 
a program to require the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
   to inspect buildings containing covered Federally assisted rental 
                    housing, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 22, 2023

    Mr. Torres of New York introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish 
a program to require the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
   to inspect buildings containing covered Federally assisted rental 
                    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 ``Building Collapse Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. INSPECTION OF COVERED FEDERALLY ASSISTED RENTAL HOUSING.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this 
section, establish a program under which the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology shall--
            (1) if requested by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
        Development after a qualifying event or a Member of the United 
        States House of Representatives or the United States Senate 
        who's district contains such building after a qualifying event, 
        inspect any building containing covered Federally assisted 
        rental housing and identify any structural issues that could 
        lead such building to collapse; or
            (2) if a building containing covered Federally assisted 
        rental housing collapses, inspect the remains of such building.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Covered federally assisted rental housing.--The term 
        ``covered Federally assisted rental housing'' means a 
        residential dwelling unit that is made available for rental and 
        for which assistance is provided, or that is part of a housing 
        project for which assistance is provided, under any program 
        administered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
        or the Secretary of Agriculture including--
                    (A) the public housing program under the United 
                States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.);
                    (B) the program for rental assistance under section 
                8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
                1437f);
                    (C) the HOME Investment Partnerships program under 
                title II of the Cranton-Gonzalez National Affordable 
                Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.);
                    (D) title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
                Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.);
                    (E) the Housing Trust Fund program under section 
                1338 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
                1992 (12 U.S.C 4568);
                    (F) the program for supportive housing for the 
                elderly under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 
                (12 U.S.C. 1701q);
                    (G) the program for supportive housing for persons 
                with disabilities under section 811 of the Cranston-
                Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
                8013);
                    (H) the AIDS Housing Opportunities program under 
                subtitle D of title VIII of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
                National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et 
                seq.);
                    (I) the program for Native American housing under 
                the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
                Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.);
                    (J) the program for housing assistance for Native 
                Hawaiians under title VIII of the Native American 
                Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
                (25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.); and
                    (K) the programs for assistance for rural rental 
                housing under title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
                U.S.C. 1471 et seq.).
            (2) Qualifying event.--The term ``qualifying event'' 
        means--
                    (A) a finding by a local building safety regulator 
                of a violation of a local construction or building 
                safety codes that could cause a building to collapse, 
                or
                    (B) an issuance of an inspection report by a 
                licensed building inspector that finds structural 
                issues with a building.
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