[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2982]
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  SA 4015. Mr. BLUMENTHAL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. 
Kirk, Mr. Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and 
Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
     shall require each public housing agency that administers 
     public housing (as defined in section 3 of the United States 
     Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a)) or housing assisted 
     under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
     U.S.C. 1437f) to remove and replace, in each dwelling unit in 
     which a child under the age of 9 resides, window coverings 
     with accessible cords exceeding 8 inches in length and window 
     coverings with continuous loops or beads.
       (b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
     require public housing agencies to phase out window coverings 
     with accessible cords exceeding 8 inches in length and window 
     coverings with continuous loops or beads that do not contain 
     a cord tension device that prohibits operation when not 
     anchored to a wall from dwelling units in public housing (as 
     defined in section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
     (42 U.S.C. 1437a)) and housing assisted under section 8 of 
     the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) not 
     later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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