[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 168 (Wednesday, October 23, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 972. Ms. ERNST (for herself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. 
Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2020, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title II of division D, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. 2__.  Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 
     1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(21) Portability of vouchers.--
       ``(A) Definitions.--In this paragraph--
       ``(i) the term `covered public housing agency' means a 
     public housing agency that, in a given fiscal year, utilizes 
     less than 95 of the budget authority available to the public 
     housing agency;
       ``(ii) the term `initial public housing agency' has the 
     meaning given the term `initial PHA' in section 982.4 of 
     title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor 
     regulation; and
       ``(iii) the term `portable family' means a family holding a 
     voucher under this subsection that seeks to rent a dwelling 
     unit outside of the jurisdiction of the initial public 
     housing agency.
       ``(B) Requirement.--A covered public housing agency that 
     has jurisdiction over the area in which a portable family is 
     seeking to use the voucher received from an initial public 
     housing agency--
       ``(i) shall be required absorb and receive the portable 
     family by the end of the calendar year in which the portable 
     family seeks to use the voucher;
       ``(ii) shall make assistance payments to the portable 
     family under an annual contributions contract entered into 
     between the covered public housing agency and the Secretary; 
     and
       ``(iii) may not bill the initial public housing agency for 
     those assistance payments.''.
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