[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 170 (Monday, October 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6196-S6197]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1164. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Menendez) 
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__. (a) Each public housing agency, in public housing 
     owned or operated by the public housing agency, and each 
     owner of a dwelling unit receiving project-based or tenant-
     based assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
     Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), section 202(j) of the Housing 
     Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(j)), section 811(j) of the 
     Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
     8013(j)), or section 856 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
     Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12905) shall ensure that 
     carbon monoxide alarms are installed in each dwelling unit in 
     a manner that meets or exceeds the standards described in 
     chapters 9 and 11 of the 2018 publication of the 
     International Fire Code, as published by the International 
     Code Council,

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     or any other standards as may be adopted by the Secretary, 
     including any relevant updates to the International Fire 
     Code, through a notice published in the Federal Register.
       (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt 
     or limit the applicability of any State or local law relating 
     to the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide alarms 
     in housing that requires standards that are more stringent 
     than the standards described in this section.
       (c) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
     provide guidance to public housing agencies on how to educate 
     tenants on health hazards in the home, including carbon 
     monoxide poisoning, lead poisoning, asthma induced by 
     housing-related allergens, and other housing-related 
     preventable outcomes, to help advance primary prevention and 
     prevent future deaths and other harms.
       (d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in 
     consultation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 
     shall conduct a study and issue a publicly available report 
     on requiring carbon monoxide alarms in Federally assisted 
     housing that is not covered by this section.
       (e) In this section, the terms ``public housing'' and 
     ``public housing agency'' have the meanings given those terms 
     in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
     U.S.C. 1437a(b)).
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