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106-hr-5640,106,hr,5640,American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-12-05,2000-12-27,Became Public Law No: 106-569.,House,"Rep. Leach, James A. [R-IA-1]",IA,R,L000169,1,"American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 - Title I: Removal of Barriers to Housing Affordability - Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000 -  Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for (consolidated) State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. Makes consortia of local governments eligible grantees. Requires grant use in coordination with the local comprehensive Afford ability strategy under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.(Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to state that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.Title II: Homeownership for Working Families - Authorizes the Secretary to insure refinancing of home equity conversions for elderly home owners. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.Includes housing cooperatives in the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly home owners. Directs the Secretary to waive up-front premiums for mortgages used for costs of long-term care insurance or health care.(Sec. 202) Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize FY 2001 appropriations for self-help housing providers. Makes certain nongrant fund advances by an organization eligible for reimbursement. Revises fund recapture provisions.Title III: Section 8 Homeownership Option - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide a single grant home ownership downpayment option (in lieu of monthly payments) under the section 8 housing assistance program.(Sec. 302) Authorizes a public housing agency providing tenant-based section 8 housing assistance to provide assistance for a qualifying disabled family that purchases a home which will be owned and occupied by one or more members of such family. Sets forth program provisions.(Sec. 303) Authorizes FY 2001 appropriations (with a 50 percent matching requirement) for home ownership programs under the section 8 home ownership demonstration program.Title IV: Private Mortgage Insurance Cancellation and Termination - Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the definition of ""cancellation date"" to replace ""amortization schedules"" with, and define, ""amortization schedule then in effect"" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of ""adjustable rate mortgages.""States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.(Sec. 404) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.(Sec. 405) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.(Sec. 406) Revises and defines specified terms.Title V: Native American Homeownership - Subtitle A: Native American Housing - Establishes the Lands Title Report Commission to facilitate home loan mortgages on Indian trust lands. Terminates the Commission one year after its initial meeting. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 502) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent the Indian housing loan guarantee authority.(Sec. 503) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) restrict the Secretary's authority to waive housing plan requirements to not more than 90 days; (2) permit the Secretary to waive local cooperation requirements upon a good faith showing and agreement to make certain payments in lieu of taxes; (3) permit assistance to Indian families that are not low-income upon a showing of need; (4) eliminate separate housing plan requirements for small tribes; (5) permit the Secretary to waive certain environmental review requirements under specified conditions; (6) permit reservation housing assistance for specified full-time Federal, State, county, or tribal law enforcement officers; (7) revise audit, review, and hearing provisions; (8) prescribe a funding formula for housing authorities operating fewer than 250 units based on an average of FY 1992 through 1997 allocations; and (9) repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements.Subtitle B: Native Hawaiian Housing - Hawaiian Homelands Homeownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.Describes eligible affordable housing activities. Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection. Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director. Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.(Sec. 514) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2001 through 2005 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal. Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.Sets forth eligible lender categories.Limits loans to 30-year terms. Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment. Establishes a loan guarantee fee. Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations. Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.Title VI: Manufactured Housing Improvement - Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000  - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to define specified terms.(Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary to establish manufactured home construction and safety standards in accordance with the consensus standards development process (provided for by this Act).Directs the Secretary to contract with: (1) a temporary administering organization to appoint the initial members of the consensus committee and administer the consensus standards development and related procedural and enforcement processes; and (2) a subsequent administering organization for the development of Federal standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.Establishes the consensus committee which shall provide the Secretary with periodic recommendations respecting Federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations. States that committee members shall represent producer, consumer, and general interest and public official interests. Sets forth related administrative provisions.(Sec. 605) Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.Requires manufacturers to provide approved design and installation instructions with each manufactured home.Requires, within specified deadlines: (1) the consensus committee to develop and submit to the Secretary proposed model manufactured home installation standards; and (2) the Secretary to develop model standards. Requires an opportunity for public comment prior to such standards' issuance. Prohibits a State or manufacturer, during the five-year period beginning with the enactment of this Act, from establishing manufactured home installation standards that provide less protection than existing standards. Directs the Secretary, not later than the expiration of such five-year period, to implement in a State that has not adopted a similar program a program which provides for: (1) installation standards and designs and instructions that meet or exceed model standards; (2) installer training and licensing; and (3) installation inspection.(Sec. 606) Directs the Secretary to submit cost information to the consensus committee.(Sec. 607) Includes among research and testing activities: (1) encouraging government-sponsored housing entities to implement secondary market securitization programs for manufactured home loans; and (2) reviewing the programs for Federal Housing Administration manufactured home loans.(Sec. 608) Makes it a prohibited act to fail to comply with the Secretary's installation standards in any State that has not adopted a State installation program.(Sec.609) Authorizes the Secretary to collect manufacturer fees, and sets forth their permitted and prohibited uses. Establishes in the Treasury a Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.Requires inspection and monitoring work to be carried out by independent contractors..Requires the Secretary to continue funding States with approved plans at levels not less than those existing immediately prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 610) Directs the Secretary to establish a dispute resolution program within five years of the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 611) Eliminates the manufactured housing annual reporting requirement.(Sec. 612) Sets forth effective date provisions.(Sec. 613) Sets forth savings provisions, including certain contract duration provisions.Title VII: Rural Housing Ownership - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to provide guarantees for rural housing loan refinancing.(Sec. 702) Increases from $2,500 to $7,500 the amount of a rural housing repair loan that needs to be evidenced only by a promissory note.(Sec. 703) Makes limited partnerships eligible for farm labor housing loans.(Sec. 704) Sets forth project accounting and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 705) Extends the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census.(Sec. 707) Makes Indian tribes (as defined by this Act) eligible for the multifamily rental housing loan guarantee program.(Sec. 708) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for rural housing program equity skimming. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil monetary penalties and prohibit renewal or extension of loan or assistance agreements for program violations.(Sec. 709) Amends Federal criminal law to include such equity skimming under money laundering provisions.Title VIII: Housing for Elderly and Disabled Families - Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act - Subtitle A: Refinancing for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary: (1) to approve prepayment of indebtedness, including refinancing under specified conditions, provided the project sponsor continues to operate the project on terms at least as advantageous to tenants as required under the original agreement; and (2) upon refinancing, to use at least 50 percent of the resultant savings in a manner that is advantageous to the tenants.Subtitle B: Authorization of Appropriations for Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly.(Sec. 822) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.(Sec. 823) Authorizes FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for: (1) grants for service coordinators for elderly and disabled residents of certain federally assisted multifamily housing; and (2) contracts for congregate services for certain federally assisted housing.Subtitle C: Expanding Public Housing Opportunities for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Part 1: Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, with respect to supportive services for the elderly, to make for-profit limited partnerships eligible program participants.(Sec. 832) Permits owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 833) Expands acquisition authority.(Sec. 834) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 835) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 2: Housing for Persons with Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make certain for-profit limited partnerships eligible recipients under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program.(Sec. 842) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program to permit owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 843) Provides that tenant-based assistance may be provided  through a qualifying public housing agency or a private nonprofit organization. Limits tenant-based assistance to 25 percent of fiscal year program assistance.(Sec. 844) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 845) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 3: Other Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing.Includes telemarketing fraud  protection among the services provided to elderly residents of federally assisted housing and under the supportive housing program. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to establish related service coordinator guidelines.Subtitle D: Preservation of Affordable Stock - Amends the National Housing Act, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting rental and cooperative housing for lower- income families, to eliminate certain restrictions on owner retention of excess charges, including retention and use of certain previously collected excess charges.Title IX: Other Related Housing Provisions - Amends the National Housing Act to extend the insurance-eligible loan term for manufactured home lots to 20 years and 32 days.(Sec. 902) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting enhanced section 8 voucher assistance, to: (1) include within the definition of ""eligibility event"" any termination or expiration of a contract for rental assistance during any fiscal year after 1994; and (2) provide that a maximum payment adversely affecting assisted families shall not be considered reasonable.(Sec. 904) Permits section 8 assistance to ""grand-families.""Title X: Federal Reserve Board Provisions - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to authorize the   Board to acquire sites or property.(Sec. 1002) Revises the positions of Board members on the Executive Schedule (increasing their salary levels).(Sec. 1003) Revises Federal Reserve System semi-annual reporting requirements.Title XI: Banking and Housing Agency Reports - Federal Reporting Act of 2000 - Makes a specified provision of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (reporting requirements included on a list prepared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the first session of the 103rd Congress) inapplicable to certain monetary policy, banking, and housing reporting requirements under specified Acts  (Sec. 1103) Sets forth specified report coordination requirements respecting: (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; (2) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; (3) the Comptroller of the Treasury; (4) the Export-Import Bank; (5) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and (6) the Federal Housing Administration.(Sec. 1104) Amends the: (1) Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to eliminate certain activity and fiscal authority reporting requirements of the Export-Import Bank; and (2) Federal Deposit Insurance Act to eliminate the requirement for a semiannual report on activities and efforts of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Title XII: Financial Regulatory Relief - Financial Regulatory Relief and Economic Efficiency Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Improving Monetary Policy and Financial Institution Management Practices - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act (HOLA) to: (1) repeal savings association liquid asset requirements; and (2) permit a savings and loan holding company, with the prior approval by the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, to acquire more than five percent of the voting shares of a non-subsidiary savings association or non-subsidiary savings and loan holding company.(Sec. 1203) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to repeal deposit broker notification and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 1204) Amends the National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act to prescribe expedited procedures permitting a national bank to: (1) reorganize as either a bank holding company, or as a bank holding company subsidiary; or (2) merge with subsidiaries or nonbank affiliates.(Sec. 1205) Amends Federal banking law to increase from one year to three years the term of the national bank director. Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to exempt a national banking association from the 25-member limit on the number of members of an association's governing body.(Sec. 1207) Amends Federal banking law and the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that the purchase or acquisition by a national banking association or depository institution of its own capital stock to prevent loss upon a previously contracted debt be disposed of within six months from the time of purchase; and (2) provide that if an institution acquires its own stock to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted for in good faith, such transaction shall not be deemed to be a loan or discount on the security of its own capital stock.(Sec. 1208) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to increase from 90 percent to 100 percent of fair market value the permissible valuation of readily marketable purchased mortgage servicing rights that may be included in calculating an insured depository institution's tangible capital, risk-based capital, or leverage limit, if the Federal regulatory agencies jointly find that such an increase will not adversely affect the deposit insurance funds or the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions.Subtitle B: Streamlining Activities of Institutions - Requires that Federal banking agencies work jointly to develop: (1) electronic filing and public dissemination of depository institution status reports (call reports); and (2) uniform formats and simplified filing instructions for such reports.Subtitle C: Streamlining Agency Actions - Amends the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that Federal banking agencies develop jointly a method for supplemental disclosures in required Federal filings of the estimated fair market value of depository institution assets and liabilities; (2) authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish the interest rate for or make post-insolvency interest payments to creditors' claims against the receivership estates of insured Federal or State depository institutions following satisfaction by the receiver of the principal amount of all creditor claims; and (3) mandate that Federal banking agencies jointly submit an annual report to certain congressional banking committees regarding differences in accounting and capital standards used by such agencies (currently such reports must be filed by the agencies individually).(Sec. 1224) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to extend the deadline for the Finance Board's issuance of regulations respecting Federal home loan bank capital standards.Subtitle D: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to related Acts.(Sec. 1233) Amends Federal banking law to: (1) authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to waive the citizenship requirement for a minority of the total number of directors sitting on the board of a national bank; (2) declare it is unlawful for the Comptroller to hold an interest in any national bank; and (3) repeal specified capital and surplus requirements for national banking associations.(Sec. 1234) Amends the International Bank Act of 1978 to modify examination requirements pertaining to establishment and operation by a foreign bank of Federal branches and agencies.",2025-01-02T17:15:43Z,
106-s-3274,106,s,3274,American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-12-05,2000-12-15,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11904),Senate,"Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]",CO,R,A000109,8,"American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 - Title I: Removal of Barriers to Housing Affordability - Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000 -  Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for (consolidated) State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. Makes consortia of local governments eligible grantees. Requires grant use in coordination with the local comprehensive affordability strategy under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.(Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to state that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.Title II: Homeownership for Working Families - Authorizes the Secretary to insure refinancing of home equity conversions for elderly home owners. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.Includes housing cooperatives in the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly home owners. Directs the Secretary to waive up-front premiums for mortgages used for costs of long-term care insurance or health care.(Sec. 202) Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize FY 2001 appropriations for self-help housing providers. Makes certain nongrant fund advances by an organization eligible for reimbursement. Revises fund recapture provisions.Title III: Section 8 Homeownership Option - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide a single grant home ownership downpayment option (in lieu of monthly payments) under the section 8 housing assistance program.(Sec. 302) Authorizes a public housing agency providing tenant-based section 8 housing assistance to provide assistance for a qualifying disabled family that purchases a home which will be owned and occupied by one or more members of such family. Sets forth program provisions.(Sec. 303) Authorizes FY 2001 appropriations (with a 50 percent matching requirement) for home ownership programs under the section 8 home ownership demonstration program.Title IV: Private Mortgage Insurance Cancellation and Termination - Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the definition of ""cancellation date"" to replace ""amortization schedules"" with, and define, ""amortization schedule then in effect"" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of ""adjustable rate mortgages.""States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.(Sec. 404) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.(Sec. 405) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.(Sec. 406) Revises and defines specified terms.Title V: Native American Homeownership - Subtitle A: Native American Housing - Establishes the Lands Title Report Commission to facilitate home loan mortgages on Indian trust lands. Terminates the Commission one year after its initial meeting. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 502) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent the Indian housing loan guarantee authority.(Sec. 503) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) restrict the Secretary's authority to waive housing plan requirements to not more than 90 days; (2) permit the Secretary to waive local cooperation requirements upon a good faith showing and agreement to make certain payments in lieu of taxes; (3) permit assistance to Indian families that are not low-income upon a showing of need; (4) eliminate separate housing plan requirements for small tribes; (5) permit the Secretary to waive certain environmental review requirements under specified conditions; (6) permit reservation housing assistance for specified full-time Federal, State, county, or tribal law enforcement officers; (7) revise audit, review, and hearing provisions; (8) prescribe a funding formula for housing authorities operating fewer than 250 units based on an average of FY 1992 through 1997 allocations; and (9) repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements.Subtitle B: Native Hawaiian Housing - Hawaiian Homelands Homeownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.Describes eligible affordable housing activities. Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection. Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director. Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.(Sec. 514) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2001 through 2005 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal. Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.Sets forth eligible lender categories.Limits loans to 30-year terms. Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment. Establishes a loan guarantee fee. Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations. Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.Title VI: Manufactured Housing Improvement - Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000  - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to define specified terms.(Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary to establish manufactured home construction and safety standards in accordance with the consensus standards development process (provided for by this Act).Directs the Secretary to contract with: (1) a temporary administering organization to appoint the initial members of the consensus committee and administer the consensus standards development and related procedural and enforcement processes; and (2) a subsequent administering organization for the development of Federal standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.Establishes the consensus committee which shall provide the Secretary with periodic recommendations respecting Federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations. States that committee members shall represent producer, consumer, and general interest and public official interests. Sets forth related administrative provisions.(Sec. 605) Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.Requires manufacturers to provide approved design and installation instructions with each manufactured home.Requires, within specified deadlines: (1) the consensus committee to develop and submit to the Secretary proposed model manufactured home installation standards; and (2) the Secretary to develop model standards. Requires an opportunity for public comment prior to such standards' issuance. Prohibits a State or manufacturer, during the five-year period beginning with the enactment of this Act, from establishing manufactured home installation standards that provide less protection than existing standards. Directs the Secretary, not later than the expiration of such five-year period, to implement in a State that has not adopted a similar program a program which provides for: (1) installation standards and designs and instructions that meet or exceed model standards; (2) installer training and licensing; and (3) installation inspection.(Sec. 606) Directs the Secretary to submit cost information to the consensus committee.(Sec. 607) Includes among research and testing activities: (1) encouraging government-sponsored housing entities to implement secondary market securitization programs for manufactured home loans; and (2) reviewing the programs for Federal Housing Administration manufactured home loans.(Sec. 608) Makes it a prohibited act to fail to comply with the Secretary's installation standards in any State that has not adopted a State installation program.(Sec.609) Authorizes the Secretary to collect manufacturer fees, and sets forth their permitted and prohibited uses. Establishes in the Treasury a Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.Requires inspection and monitoring work to be carried out by independent contractors..Requires the Secretary to continue funding States with approved plans at levels not less than those existing immediately prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 610) Directs the Secretary to establish a dispute resolution program within five years of the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 611) Eliminates the manufactured housing annual reporting requirement.(Sec. 612) Sets forth effective date provisions.(Sec. 613) Sets forth savings provisions, including certain contract duration provisions.Title VII: Rural Housing Ownership - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to provide guarantees for rural housing loan refinancing.(Sec. 702) Increases from $2,500 to $7,500 the amount of a rural housing repair loan that needs to be evidenced only by a promissory note.(Sec. 703) Makes limited partnerships eligible for farm labor housing loans.(Sec. 704) Sets forth project accounting and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 705) Extends the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census.(Sec. 707) Makes Indian tribes (as defined by this Act) eligible for the multifamily rental housing loan guarantee program.(Sec. 708) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for rural housing program equity skimming. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil monetary penalties and prohibit renewal or extension of loan or assistance agreements for program violations.(Sec. 709) Amends Federal criminal law to include such equity skimming under money laundering provisions.Title VIII: Housing for Elderly and Disabled Families - Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act - Subtitle A: Refinancing for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary: (1) to approve prepayment of indebtedness, including refinancing under specified conditions, provided the project sponsor continues to operate the project on terms at least as advantageous to tenants as required under the original agreement; and (2) upon refinancing, to use at least 50 percent of the resultant savings in a manner that is advantageous to the tenants.Subtitle B: Authorization of Appropriations for Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly.(Sec. 822) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.(Sec. 823) Authorizes FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for: (1) grants for service coordinators for elderly and disabled residents of certain federally assisted multifamily housing; and (2) contracts for congregate services for certain federally assisted housing.Subtitle C: Expanding Public Housing Opportunities for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Part 1: Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, with respect to supportive services for the elderly, to make for-profit limited partnerships eligible program participants.(Sec. 832) Permits owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 833) Expands acquisition authority.(Sec. 834) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 835) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 2: Housing for Persons with Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make certain for-profit limited partnerships eligible recipients under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program.(Sec. 842) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program to permit owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 843) Provides that tenant-based assistance may be provided  through a qualifying public housing agency or a private nonprofit organization. Limits tenant-based assistance to 25 percent of fiscal year program assistance.(Sec. 844) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 845) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 3: Other Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing.Includes telemarketing fraud  protection among the services provided to elderly residents of federally assisted housing and under the supportive housing program. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to establish related service coordinator guidelines.Subtitle D: Preservation of Affordable Stock - Amends the National Housing Act, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting rental and cooperative housing for lower- income families, to eliminate certain restrictions on owner retention of excess charges, including retention and use of certain previously collected excess charges.Title IX: Other Related Housing Provisions - Amends the National Housing Act to extend the insurance-eligible loan term for manufactured home lots to 20 years and 32 days.(Sec. 902) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting enhanced section 8 voucher assistance, to: (1) include within the definition of ""eligibility event"" any termination or expiration of a contract for rental assistance during any fiscal year after 1994; and (2) provide that a maximum payment adversely affecting assisted families shall not be considered reasonable.(Sec. 904) Permits section 8 assistance to ""grand-families.""Title X: Federal Reserve Board Provisions - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to authorize the   Board to acquire sites or property.(Sec. 1002) Revises the positions of Board members on the Executive Schedule (increasing their salary levels).(Sec. 1003) Revises Federal Reserve System semi-annual reporting requirements.Title XI: Banking and Housing Agency Reports - Federal Reporting Act of 2000 - Makes a specified provision of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (reporting requirements included on a list prepared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the first session of the 103rd Congress) inapplicable to certain monetary policy, banking, and housing reporting requirements under specified Acts  (Sec. 1103) Sets forth specified report coordination requirements respecting: (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; (2) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; (3) the Comptroller of the Treasury; (4) the Export-Import Bank; (5) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and (6) the Federal Housing Administration.(Sec. 1104) Amends the: (1) Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to eliminate certain activity and fiscal authority reporting requirements of the Export-Import Bank; and (2) Federal Deposit Insurance Act to eliminate the requirement for a semiannual report on activities and efforts of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Title XII: Financial Regulatory Relief - Financial Regulatory Relief and Economic Efficiency Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Improving Monetary Policy and Financial Institution Management Practices - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act (HOLA) to: (1) repeal savings association liquid asset requirements; and (2) permit a savings and loan holding company, with the prior approval by the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, to acquire more than five percent of the voting shares of a non-subsidiary savings association or non-subsidiary savings and loan holding company.(Sec. 1203) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to repeal deposit broker notification and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 1204) Amends the National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act to prescribe expedited procedures permitting a national bank to: (1) reorganize as either a bank holding company, or as a bank holding company subsidiary; or (2) merge with subsidiaries or nonbank affiliates.(Sec. 1205) Amends Federal banking law to increase from one year to three years the term of the national bank director. Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to exempt a national banking association from the 25-member limit on the number of members of an association's governing body.(Sec. 1207) Amends Federal banking law and the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that the purchase or acquisition by a national banking association or depository institution of its own capital stock to prevent loss upon a previously contracted debt be disposed of within six months from the time of purchase; and (2) provide that if an institution acquires its own stock to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted for in good faith, such transaction shall not be deemed to be a loan or discount on the security of its own capital stock.(Sec. 1208) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to increase from 90 percent to 100 percent of fair market value the permissible valuation of readily marketable purchased mortgage servicing rights that may be included in calculating an insured depository institution's tangible capital, risk-based capital, or leverage limit, if the Federal regulatory agencies jointly find that such an increase will not adversely affect the deposit insurance funds or the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions.Subtitle B: Streamlining Activities of Institutions - Requires that Federal banking agencies work jointly to develop: (1) electronic filing and public dissemination of depository institution status reports (call reports); and (2) uniform formats and simplified filing instructions for such reports.Subtitle C: Streamlining Agency Actions - Amends the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that Federal banking agencies develop jointly a method for supplemental disclosures in required Federal filings of the estimated fair market value of depository institution assets and liabilities; (2) authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish the interest rate for or make post-insolvency interest payments to creditors' claims against the receivership estates of insured Federal or State depository institutions following satisfaction by the receiver of the principal amount of all creditor claims; and (3) mandate that Federal banking agencies jointly submit an annual report to certain congressional banking committees regarding differences in accounting and capital standards used by such agencies (currently such reports must be filed by the agencies individually).(Sec. 1224) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to extend the deadline for the Finance Board's issuance of regulations respecting Federal home loan bank capital standards.Subtitle D: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to related Acts.(Sec. 1233) Amends Federal banking law to: (1) authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to waive the citizenship requirement for a minority of the total number of directors sitting on the board of a national bank; (2) declare it is unlawful for the Comptroller to hold an interest in any national bank; and (3) repeal specified capital and surplus requirements for national banking associations.(Sec. 1234) Amends the International Bank Act of 1978 to modify examination requirements pertaining to establishment and operation by a foreign bank of Federal branches and agencies.",2025-08-20T14:18:49Z,
106-hr-5604,106,hr,5604,Affordable Housing Assistance Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-30,2000-10-30,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]",CA,D,L000397,0,Affordable Housing Assistance Act of 2000 - Amends Federal law to fund the shelter plus care program exclusively from amounts appropriated for section 8 (rental assistance) of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Authorizes additional section 8 appropriations for the shelter plus care program.Authorizes additional appropriations for section 8 voucher assistance.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the community development block grant program.,2025-08-20T14:18:59Z,
106-hr-5566,106,hr,5566,Tenants Housing Opportunity Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-26,2000-10-26,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Barrett, Thomas M. [D-WI-5]",WI,D,B000177,0,Tenants Housing Opportunity Act - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive the requirement that a family receiving section 8 project-based rental assistance receive one-year notice of assistance termination in order to facilitate such family's purchase of an assisted dwelling.,2025-08-20T14:18:53Z,
106-s-3242,106,s,3242,National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-25,2000-10-25,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.",Senate,"Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]",IA,D,H000206,5,Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit a group of authorized private investors to establish and manage a National Rural Cooperative and Business Equity Fund to raise and provide equity capital for rural businesses. Assists the Fund through direct Federal payments and Federal guarantees of private sector assistance.,2025-08-20T14:20:54Z,
106-s-3228,106,s,3228,Rural Rental Housing Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-24,2000-10-24,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10927-10928)",Senate,"Sen. Edwards, John [D-NC]",NC,D,E000286,2,"Rural Rental Housing Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, directly or through specified intermediaries, to provide rural rental housing assistance. Gives priority to low-income families, low-income communities, or communities lacking affordable rental housing. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-20T14:20:05Z,
106-hr-5417,106,hr,5417,McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-06,2000-10-30,Became Public Law No: 106-400.,House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,90,Renames the Stewart B.McKinney Homeless Assistance Act as the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.,2025-01-02T17:15:20Z,
106-hr-5424,106,hr,5424,"To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize communities receiving community development block grants to use grant amounts to provide assistance to local firefighting, emergency medical, and rescue services.",Housing and Community Development,2000-10-06,2000-10-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Weldon, Curt [R-PA-7]",PA,R,W000268,0,"Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to permit the use of community development block grants for local fire fighting, emergency medical, and rescue services.",2025-01-02T17:15:14Z,
106-s-3175,106,s,3175,National Rural Development Partnership Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-10-05,2000-10-05,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9961-9963)",Senate,"Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]",ID,R,C000858,30,"National Rural Development Partnership Act of 2000 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish the National Rural Development Partnership composed of the National Rural Development Council (established by this Act) and State and rural development councils (authorized by this Act). Includes among Partnership purposes: (1) enhancement of State and local rural development capacities; and (2) engagement of Federal, State, local, tribal, and private and nonprofit sectors in such efforts.Authorizes appropriations. Provides for State rural development council matching requirements.Terminates the Partnership five years after enactment of this Act.",2025-08-20T14:17:44Z,
106-hr-5338,106,hr,5338,Protection of the American Dream Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-09-28,2000-10-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Hansen, James V. [R-UT-1]",UT,R,H000172,1,"Protection of the American Dream Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 to replace the definition of ""private mortgage insurance"" with a definition of ""qualified mortgage insurance"" which includes National Housing Act (FHA) mortgage insurance.Amends the National Housing Act to provide for cancellation of single family home mortgage insurance.",2025-08-20T14:19:50Z,
106-hr-5256,106,hr,5256,FHA Shutdown Prevention Act ,Housing and Community Development,2000-09-21,2000-10-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,0,FHA Shutdown Prevention Act - Amends the National Housing Act to permit the use of negative credit subsidy from the General Insurance Fund or the Special Risk Insurance Fund for specific housing insurance mortgage or loan commitments. Considers such negative credit subsidies as new budget authority provided in advance of an appropriations Act for the fiscal year concerned.,2025-08-20T14:20:29Z,
106-hr-5230,106,hr,5230,"To amend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to designate Edmonson, Hart, and Metcalfe Counties, Kentucky, as part of the Appalachian region.",Housing and Community Development,2000-09-20,2000-09-20,Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.,House,"Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]",KY,R,L000293,0,"Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1985 to add Edmonson, Hart, and Metcalfe Counties, Kentucky, to the Appalachian region.",2025-01-02T17:15:05Z,
106-hr-5193,106,hr,5193,FHA Downpayment Simplification Extension Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-09-18,2000-10-06,Became Public Law No: 106-281.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,1,"FHA Downpayment Simplification Extension Act of 2000 - Amends the National Housing Act to extend certain downpayment  provisions of the Federal Housing Administration single family housing mortgage insurance program to include mortgages closed on or before October 30, 2000.",2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
106-s-3033,106,s,3033,Housing Needs Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-09-12,2000-09-12,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",Senate,"Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]",MO,R,B000611,0,Housing Needs Act of 2000 - Title I: Production of New Housing for Low and Very Low-Income Families - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make funds available to State housing finance agencies for low-income housing rehabilitation and development. Requires State submission of an affordable housing expansion plan.Directs the Secretary to carry out a multifamily risk-sharing mortgage insurance program.Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Section 8 Voucher Success Demonstration - Directs the Secretary to establish a voucher success demonstration to increase the section 8 voucher payment standard in order to assist low-and very low-income families in tight rental markets.Title III: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the United States Housing Act to increase amounts available for section 8 project-based assistance.Authorizes the Secretary to contract for project-based assistance for Department of Housing and Urban Development owned or held multifamily properties that are no longer feasible for continued section 8 rental assistance.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent certain multifamily mortgage credit demonstrations.,2025-08-20T14:19:15Z,
106-hr-5079,106,hr,5079,Rural Housing Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-07-27,2000-08-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Ramstad, Jim [R-MN-3]",MN,R,R000033,2,Rural Housing Act of 2000 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to revise the provisions regarding  rural multifamily housing loan prepayment. Sets forth prepayment alternatives.Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit enhanced voucher use for loan prepayments.,2025-08-20T14:19:51Z,
106-s-2952,106,s,2952,Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations in Housing and Community Development Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-07-27,2000-07-27,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",Senate,"Sen. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,T000317,0,"Faith-Based and Community-Based Organizations in Housing and Community Development Act of 2000 - Authorizes the Director of the Center for Community and Interfaith Partnerships of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award grants to private, nonprofit community-based organizations (including social service organizations, and community development corporations) and religious organizations for specified housing and community development purposes.Prohibits sectarian fund use.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase annual community development block grant set asides for special purpose grants. Sets aside annual amounts for grants under this Act.",2025-08-20T14:17:14Z,
106-s-2968,106,s,2968,Local Housing Opportunities Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-07-27,2000-07-27,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7870-7881)",Senate,"Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]",CO,R,A000109,0,"Local Housing Opportunities Act - Title I: Program Consolidation - Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from carrying out any programs not expressly authorized by Federal law.Terminates specified Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs.Establishes the HUD Consolidation Task Force.Title II: Community Empowerment - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to authorize appropriations for the community development block grant program. Prohibits set-asides unless specifically provided for.Sets forth certain HUD property disposition provisions.Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1966 to make permanent the moving to work program.Title III: Homeless Assistance Reform - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to combine specified housing programs into a McKinney Homeless Assistance Performance Fund. Authorizes appropriations.Title IV: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize appropriations for  mutual and self-help housing technical assistance and training grants.Title V: Voucher Reform - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize appropriations for rental vouchers for witness and victims of crime relocation.Title VI: Program Modernization - Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize appropriations for assistance for the self-help home ownership opportunity  program.Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to authorize and increase appropriations for the capacity building for community development and affordable housing program.Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish a public housing work requirement.Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to permit the use of section 8 assistance in grand family housing assisted with HOME funds.Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the neighborhood reinvestment corporation.Title VII: State Housing Block Grant - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize States to assume control of Federal housing assistance funds upon execution of a qualifying performance agreement with the Secretary.Title VIII: Private Sector Incentives - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to low-income housing tax credit State ceilings and private activity bond caps.Title IX: Enforcement - Amends Federal law to prohibit HUD to use appropriated funds for lobbying activities.",2025-08-20T14:17:23Z,
106-s-2997,106,s,2997,National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-07-27,2000-09-12,"Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 106-1080.",Senate,"Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000148,10,National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Act of 2000 - Establishes the National Affordable Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury to promote the development of affordable housing.,2025-09-03T11:03:18Z,
106-s-2914,106,s,2914,Homeowners Rebate Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-07-25,2000-09-12,"Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 106-1080.",Senate,"Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]",CO,R,A000109,2,Homeowners Rebate Act of 2000 - Amends the National Housing Act to provide for partial rebates to mortgagors of certain Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund surplus reserves.Requires the General Accounting Office to report respecting the adequacy of Fund capital ratios.,2025-09-03T11:03:18Z,
106-hr-4795,106,hr,4795,Homeowners Rebate Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-06-29,2000-08-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,12,Homeowners Rebate Act of 2000 - Amends the National Housing Act to provide for partial rebates to mortgagors of certain Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund surplus reserves.Requires the General Accounting Office to report respecting the adequacy of Fund capital ratios.,2025-08-20T14:20:44Z,
106-s-2806,106,s,2806,Credit Watch Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-06-28,2000-06-28,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",Senate,"Sen. Sarbanes, Paul S. [D-MD]",MD,D,S000064,4,"Credit Watch Act 2000 - Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to review, at least annually, the indicators of portfolio risk for insured single family mortgages originated or underwritten by each mortgagee, and compare such risk with comparable mortgages in the same area. Authorizes the Secretary, based upon such comparison, to terminate the approval of a mortgage as an unacceptable insurance risk.Sets forth termination procedures.",2025-08-20T14:19:50Z,
106-s-2811,106,s,2811,A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants.,Housing and Community Development,2000-06-28,2000-10-25,Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,5,Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss eligible for community facilities grants.Authorizes appropriations.,2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,
106-s-2733,106,s,2733,Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-06-15,2000-07-18,"Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 106-1077.",Senate,"Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]",PA,R,S000059,17,"Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act - Title I: Refinancing for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly -  Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, respecting projects assisted under section 202 (supportive housing for the elderly) of the Housing Act of 1959, to: (1) approve prepayment of indebtedness, including refinancing under specified conditions, provided the project sponsor continues to operate the project on terms at least as advantageous to tenants as required under the original agreement; and (2) upon refinancing, use at least 50 percent of the resultant savings in a manner that is advantageous to the tenants.Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly.(Sec. 202) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.(Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants for service coordinators for elderly and disabled residents of certain federally assisted multifamily housing; and (2) contracts for congregate services for certain federally assisted housing.Title III: Expanding Public Housing Opportunities for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Subtitle A: Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, with respect to supportive services for the elderly, to establish a matching capital grant program. Provides for certain numbers of tenants who are elderly but  not very low-income persons.(Sec. 302) Makes for-profit limited partnerships eligible program participants.(Sec. 303) Permits owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 304) Expands acquisition authority.(Sec. 305) Authorizes low-income eligibility in supportive housing projects with high vacancy rates.(Sec. 306) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 307) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.(Sec. 308) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program for up to five projects to determine the effectiveness and feasibility of providing section 202 assistance for housing projects that are both for supportive services for the elderly and for other types of housing, including market rate housing.(Sec. 309) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for capital repairs of elderly housing projects or their conversion to assisted living facilities. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 310) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public housing agencies for conversion of public housing for the elderly to assisted living facilities. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 311) Directs the Secretary to make an annual inventory of HUD and federally-assisted housing designated for elderly and disabled families.(Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary, in the case of denial of section 202 assistance for failure to provide timely information, to notify and provide opportunity for the applicant to show third party fault.Subtitle B: Housing for Persons with Disabilities - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to supportive housing for persons with disabilities to include among assistance forms a capital advance matching grants program. Provides for certain numbers of tenants who are disabled but not very low-income persons.(Sec. 322) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make certain for-profit limited partnerships eligible recipients under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program.(Sec. 323) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program to permit owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 324) Provides that limited tenant-based assistance may be provided  through a qualifying public housing agency or a private nonprofit organization.(Sec. 325) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 326) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing.Includes telemarketing fraud  protection among the services provided to elderly residents of federally assisted housing and under the supportive housing program.Title IV: Preservation of Affordable Housing Stock - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States and localities for low-income housing preservation and promotion.Title V: Mortgage Insurance for Health Care Facilities and Home Equity Conversion Mortgages - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize mortgage insurance for debt refinancing of existing health care facilities. Permits hospital, home, or facility refinancing to prepay a loan that is within five years of maturity. Permits use of refinancing proceeds for related maintenance and equipment.(Sec. 502) Includes within the definition of ""assisted living facility"" certain unlicenced facilities. Defines ""integrated service facility.""(Sec. 503) Revises hospital mortgage insurance provisions.(Sec. 504) Authorizes the Secretary to insure  refinancing of home equity conversion mortgages.",2025-08-20T14:19:22Z,
106-hr-4664,106,hr,4664,Elderly Housing Plus Health Support Demonstration Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-06-14,2000-06-14,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]",NY,D,M001137,9,"Elderly Housing Plus Health Support Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out an elderly housing plus health support demonstration program to provide elderly and disabled families in public housing with supportive and congregate services, and housing rehabilitation.Sets forth public housing authority (PHA) selection provisions.Authorizes appropriations for capital improvements  Directs the Secretary to provide PHA grants under the Housing Act of 1937 for service coordinator and congregate services. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-20T14:21:04Z,
106-sres-319,106,sres,319,"A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Senate should participate in and support activities to provide decent homes for the people of the United States, and for other purposes.",Housing and Community Development,2000-06-09,2000-06-09,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4930; text as passed Senate: CR S4930; text of measure as introduced: CR S4923-4924)",Senate,"Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]",KS,R,B000953,54,"Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) everyone in the United States should have a decent home; (2) Members of the Senate should demonstrate the importance of volunteerism; and (3) Members of the Senate and contributing organizations should sponsor and construct two homes in the District of Columbia, each of which to be known as a ""House That the Senate Built.""",2018-03-19T20:10:43Z,
106-s-2602,106,s,2602,"A bill to provide for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to fund, on a 1-year emergency basis, certain requests for grant renewal under the programs for permanent supportive housing and shelter-plus-care for home less persons.",Housing and Community Development,2000-05-23,2000-05-23,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",Senate,"Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]",ME,R,S000663,1,"Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon request by a qualifying entity whose funding is expiring, to make a one-year grant for permanent supportive housing or shelter- plus-care for the homeless assistance.",2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
106-s-2447,106,s,2447,Rural Telework Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-04-13,2000-04-13,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2766-2767)",Senate,"Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN]",MN,D,W000288,3,"Rural Telework Act of 2000 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Rural Utility Service, to establish a National Centers for Distance Working Program to provide grants to eligible organizations for the Federal share of establishing National Centers for Distance Working in rural areas.Directs a recipient Center to use grants for five-year projects to: (1) identify needed skills and provide training and employment-related services to persons in rural areas and Indian tribes to support the use of teleworking (the use of telecommunications to perform work functions over a distance) in technology fields; and (2) recruit employers and provide for high-speed employer-employee communications.Authorizes the Secretary to make limited grants for teleworking studies, including development of best practices for businesses that employ teleworkers.Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-20T14:17:02Z,
106-hr-4084,106,hr,4084,Church Protection Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,2000-03-23,2000-03-23,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]",TX,R,P000583,0,Church Protection Act of 2000 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to prohibit the use of community development block grants to acquire real property owned by a tax exempt church without the prior consent of the church's governing body.,2025-08-20T14:17:44Z,
106-hr-3884,106,hr,3884,Homeownership Opportunities for Uniformed Services and Educators Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-03-09,2000-03-31,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,14,Homeownership Opportunities for Uniformed Services and Educators Act - Amends the National Housing Act to provide for one percent downpayments for Federal Housing Administration mortgage loans for qualified elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators and non-Federal  public safety officers to purchase homes within the jurisdictions of their employing agencies.,2025-08-20T14:19:26Z,
106-hr-3834,106,hr,3834,Homeowners Financing Protection Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-03-06,2000-09-20,"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",House,"Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,A000210,0,Homeowners Financing Protection Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to permit sec. 502 refinancing loan guarantees for single family low-and moderate-income mortgages guaranteed under the sec. 502 rural housing loan program. Sets forth refinancing loan requirements.,2025-04-07T13:46:38Z,
106-hr-3703,106,hr,3703,Housing Finance Regulatory Improvement Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-29,2000-07-20,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]",LA,R,B000072,14,"Housing Finance Regulatory Improvement Act - Title I: Housing Finance Oversight Board - Subtitle A: Improvement of Supervision - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to establish the Housing Finance Oversight Board in lieu of the existing Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Federal Housing Finance Board, and specified government sponsored enterprise (enterprises) authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.Directs the Board to ensure that the enterprises and the Federal home loan banks (banks) operate in a financially safe manner and remain adequately capitalized.(Sec. 103) Provides for public disclosure of information that would increase the efficiency of the secondary mortgage market or the housing finance system.(Sec. 105) Subjects the banks to Board assessment authority.(Sec. 109) Eliminates specified enterprise regulatory authority of HUD.(Sec. 110) Grants the Board prior approval authority over new activities of the banks and enterprises.(Sec. 111) Authorizes the Board to limit enterprise and bank nonmission-related assets.(Sec. 112) Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to establish specified conforming loan limits.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to direct the Board to establish a housing price index.(Sec. 114) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to subject the banks to Board regulatory authority.Subtitle B: Reduction of Systematic Risk -Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to subject enterprises to annual credit determinations.(Sec. 136) Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act (Fannie Mae), the Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act (Freddie Mac), and the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (banks) to eliminate Treasury credit line authority.(Sec. 139) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to establish the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation.(Sec. 141) Directs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to study the effects of enterprise failure on depository institutions.Subtitle C: General Provisions - Makes conforming amendments to specified Acts.Title II: Transfer of Functions, Personnel, and Property - Abolishes the (HUD) Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, and the Federal Housing Finance Board. Sets forth related transfer of personnel and facility and property provisions.",2025-08-20T14:17:44Z,
106-hr-3706,106,hr,3706,Rural Housing Preservation Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-29,2000-03-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]",NE,R,B000403,0,Rural Housing Preservation Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the rural classification of certain areas until receipt of data from the 2010 decennial census.,2025-08-20T14:20:30Z,
106-s-2112,106,s,2112,Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims' Housing Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-28,2000-02-28,"Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S869-870)",Senate,"Sen. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,T000317,7,"Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims' Housing Act - Increases specified authorization of appropriations under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to be used to provide housing assistance for individuals or families victimized by domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault.",2025-08-20T14:17:36Z,
106-hr-3613,106,hr,3613,"To provide for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to fund, on a 1-year emergency basis, certain requests for grant renewal under the programs for permanent supportive housing and shelter-plus-care for homeless persons.",Housing and Community Development,2000-02-10,2000-07-19,Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1281),House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,12,"Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to fund from unobligated amounts under section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, on a one-year renewal basis, certain grants for permanent supportive housing and shelter-plus-care for homeless persons.",2025-01-02T17:13:09Z,
106-hr-3615,106,hr,3615,Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-10,2000-05-02,Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 525.,House,"Rep. Goodlatte, Bob [R-VA-6]",VA,R,G000289,123,"Rural Local Broadcast Signal Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to facilitate access to local television signals for households in unserved and underserved areas by December 31, 2006.(Sec. 3) Establishes the Rural Television Loan Guarantee Board which shall determine loan recipients under this Act.(Sec. 4) Authorizes the Board, subject to prior funding, to approve loan guarantees to finance the acquisition, improvement, construction, launch, or rehabilitation of the means by which local television broadcast signals will be delivered principally to unserved areas. Directs the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to prescribe implementing regulations.Includes among loan requirements stipulations that such loan must: (1) not be used for operating, advertising, or promotional expenses; (2) be determined by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to be commercially viable and not likely to have an adverse competitive effect; (3) be provided by a qualifying lender; and (4) be repaid within 25 years or the primary asset's useful life.Grants loan priority to projects serving the greatest number of households in unserved areas. Prohibits loans that will serve certain populated market areas.Establishes an: (1) aggregate $1.25 billion loan cap; and (2) 80 percent loan guarantee for the portion of the loan used to provide local television signals.Authorizes the Board to establish and approve credit risk premiums.States that the Board's approval or disapproval of a loan guarantee shall not be subject to judicial review.(Sec. 5) Directs the Administrator to issue and administer approved loan guarantees.Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) security for protection of U.S. financial interests; (2) loan guarantee assignment; (3) loan guarantee modification; (4) performance schedules; (5) compliance; (6) commercial validity; (7) defaults; (8) payment recovery; (9) action against an obligor; (10) breach of conditions; (11) attachment; (12) fees; (13) affiliates; and (14) bankruptcy.(Sec. 6) Prohibits fund use: (1) for spectrum auctions; and (2) by incumbent cable operators.(Sec. 8) Directs the Comptroller General to perform annual audits of: (1) the loan guarantee program; and (2) loan guarantee recipients.(Sec. 9) States that a facility of a satellite carrier, cable system, or other multichannel video programming distributor financed with a loan guarantee under this Act that delivers local broadcasting signals in a specified television market shall not be  required to carry a greater number of signals than such market's largest cable subscriber system.(Sec. 10) Directs the Federal Communications Commission to open an application filing period window for television translator stations and low-power television stations in rural areas.(Sec. 11) Directs the FCC to reinstate as tentative rural service selectees, and permit application amendments for: (1) Great Western Cellular Partners; (2) Monroe Telephone Services L.P.;and (3) FutureWave General Partners L.P.(Sec. 12) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the definition of ""satellite carrier."" (Includes distributors under specified circumstances.)(Sec. 13) Defined specified terms.(Sec. 14) Authorizes FY 2001 through 2006 appropriations.(Sec. 15) Prohibits loan guarantee approval after December 31, 2006.",2025-04-07T13:47:21Z,
106-hr-3617,106,hr,3617,Consumers' Home Improvement Protection Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-10,2000-02-18,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,3,"Consumers' Home Improvement Protection Act - Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to take the following actions to prevent rehabilitation loan program fraud: (1) prohibit identity of interest of borrowers (including nonprofit organizations), lenders, consultants, real estate agents, inspectors, or appraisers; (2) establish nonprofit organization participation standards; (3) prohibit final loan disbursement until rehabilitation completion; and (4) require consultant certification and contractor qualification (for projects of $25,000 or more).Directs the Secretary report on nonprofit organization program participation.",2025-08-20T14:20:53Z,
106-hr-3637,106,hr,3637,Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-10,2000-05-24,"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.",House,"Rep. Roukema, Marge [R-NJ-5]",NJ,R,R000465,6,"Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998, with respect to the definition of "" cancellation date"" to  replace ""amortization schedules"" with, and define,""amortization schedule then in effect"" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of ""adjustable rate mortgages.""States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.(Sec. 4) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.(Sec. 5) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.(Sec. 6) Revises specified definitions.",2025-08-20T14:18:49Z,
106-hr-3607,106,hr,3607,Affordable Long-Term Care Insurance Act,Housing and Community Development,2000-02-09,2000-02-18,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,2,Affordable Long-Term Care Insurance Act - Amends the National Housing Act to waive up-front premiums for home equity conversion mortgages used to purchase long-term care insurance.,2025-08-20T14:20:04Z,
106-s-1980,106,s,1980,21st Century Rural Utility Service Rural Development Enhancement Through Local Information Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-11-19,1999-11-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.,Senate,"Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]",MT,D,B000243,14,"21st Century Rural Utility Service Rural Development Enhancement Through Local Information Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to make loan guarantees (through a specified date) to providers of multichannel video services, including direct broadcast satellite licensees, to improve access to local television broadcasting  to all households desiring such service in unserved and underserved rural areas.Requires loan guarantee approval by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.Sets forth satellite carrier loan guarantee qualifications.Authorizes appropriations.Sets forth conditions under which a borrower shall be obliged to carry local broadcast signals without charge.",2025-08-20T14:19:08Z,
106-hr-3499,106,hr,3499,Youngstown Community Center Development Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-11-18,1999-11-18,Referred to the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]",OH,D,T000350,0,"Youngstown Community Center Development Act of 1999 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to: (1) increase the community development block grant aggregate special purpose grant set-aside; and (2) obligate specified amounts for Youngstown, Ohio, for construction of a community center and renovation of the Sports Complex (formerly known as South Field House).",2025-08-20T14:19:16Z,
106-hr-3098,106,hr,3098,Mahoning Valley Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-10-18,1999-10-22,"Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation and Credit.",House,"Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]",OH,D,T000350,0,"Mahoning Valley Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, from amounts made available for grants under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act for FY 2001, to make specified grants for: (1) a project for the construction of a water treatment facility and extension of waterlines in Milton Township and Craig Beach Village, Ohio; (2) the replacement of waterlines in McDonald, Ohio; and (3) sewer line projects in rural communities in Trumbull County, Ohio.",2025-08-20T14:16:58Z,
106-s-1737,106,s,1737,A bill to amend the National Housing Act with respect to the reverse mortgage program and housing cooperatives.,Housing and Community Development,1999-10-15,1999-10-15,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,T000317,1,"Amends the National Housing Act to include residential cooperative housing first mortgages and first liens within the program of insuring home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners.  Defines ""first mortgage.""",2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
106-hr-3054,106,hr,3054,To support the fiscal year 2000 proposed budget.,Housing and Community Development,1999-10-07,1999-10-07,Referred to the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services.,House,"Rep. Weygand, Robert A. [D-RI-2]",RI,D,W000315,6,Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make competitive grants to improve regional growth patterns through interjurisdictional cooperation in the planning and implementation of development strategies and projects. Sets forth program provisions.Authorizes appropriations.,2025-01-02T17:12:19Z,
106-hr-3055,106,hr,3055,To support the fiscal year 2000 proposed budget.,Housing and Community Development,1999-10-07,1999-10-25,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Weygand, Robert A. [D-RI-2]",RI,D,W000315,5,"Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to units of general local government for clearance, demolition, deconstruction, and removal of vacant buildings, including single and multifamily, industrial, office, governmental, institutional, and commercial buildings, and subsequent site preparation. Sets forth program provisions.Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-02T17:12:30Z,
106-hr-2931,106,hr,2931,To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a 3 year pilot program to assist law enforcement officers purchasing homes in locally-designated high-crime areas.,Housing and Community Development,1999-09-23,1999-10-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]",WI,R,G000545,0,"Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a three-year pilot program of mortgage assistance (downpayment, closing costs, insurance premium) for qualifying law enforcement officers buying homes in locally-designated high-crime areas.",2025-01-02T17:12:20Z,
106-hr-2860,106,hr,2860,To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a pilot program to provide homeownership assistance to disabled families.,Housing and Community Development,1999-09-14,1999-09-24,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Green, Mark [R-WI-8]",WI,R,G000545,0,Authorizes a home ownership assistance pilot program for qualifying disabled families.,2025-01-02T17:12:09Z,
106-hr-2836,106,hr,2836,Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-09-09,1999-09-17,Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.,House,"Rep. Vitter, David [R-LA-1]",LA,R,V000127,2,"Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1999 - Amends the Fair Housing Act to state that: (1) nothing in such Act shall be construed to make the expression of an opinion or the seeking of redress from public authority a violation of such Act; and (2) a party shall not be liable for engaging in litigation or administrative proceedings unless done so for an improper purpose, or not supported by evidence or warranted by existing law. (Sec. 3) Requires specificity of complaint. (Sec. 4) States that a provision of State or local law shall not be construed to violate fair housing provisions if the alleging party has not first exhausted State remedies. (Sec. 5) Provides that familial status protection shall apply to persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and certain foster children. (Sec. 6) States that fair housing provisions shall not prevent local control of residential uses.",2025-08-20T14:21:19Z,
106-hr-2657,106,hr,2657,Teacher Next Door Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-30,1999-09-10,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]",NY,D,C001038,7,Teacher Next Door Act - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to sell Department of Housing and Urban Development-owned single family properties at a discount to eligible elementary and secondary school teachers for use as their residences.  Provides for: (1) mortgage downpayment assistance; (2) direct and indirect sales; and (3) an information outreach program.,2025-08-20T14:18:22Z,
106-s-1452,106,s,1452,Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-28,2000-10-25,Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.,Senate,"Sen. Shelby, Richard C. [R-AL]",AL,R,S000320,32,"American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 - Title I: Removal of Barriers to Housing Affordability - Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000 -  Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for (consolidated) State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. Makes consortia of local governments eligible grantees. Requires grant use in coordination with the local comprehensive affordability strategy under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.(Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to state that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.Title II: Homeownership for Working Families - Provides for one percent downpayments for Federal Housing Administration mortgage loans for qualified elementary (including pre-kindergarten) and secondary school teachers and administrators and non-Federal public safety officers to purchase homes within the jurisdictions of their employing agencies.(Sec. 202) Authorizes the Secretary to insure refinancing of home equity conversions for elderly home owners. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.Includes housing cooperatives in the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly home owners. Directs the Secretary to waive up-front premiums for mortgages used for costs of long-term care insurance or health care.(Sec. 203) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to assist qualifying law enforcement officers (including correctional officers) purchase homes in locally designated high crime areas. Provides for: (1) no downpayment; and (2) inclusion of closing costs and a single required insurance payment in the loan amount. Sunsets the program three years after assistance is made available.(Sec. 204) Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for self-help housing providers. Makes certain nongrant fund advances by an organization eligible for reimbursement. Revises fund recapture provisions.Title III: Section 8 Homeownership Option - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide a single grant home ownership downpayment option (in lieu of monthly payments) under the section 8 housing assistance program.(Sec. 302) Authorizes a public housing agency providing tenant-based section 8 housing assistance to provide assistance for a qualifying disabled family that purchases a home which will be owned and occupied by one or more members of such family. Sets forth program provisions.(Sec. 303) Authorizes FY 2001 appropriations (with a 50 percent matching requirement) for Home ownership programs under the section 8 homeownership demonstration program.Title IV: Private Mortgage Insurance Cancellation and Termination - Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the definition of ""cancellation date"" to replace ""amortization schedules"" with, and define, ""amortization schedule the in effect"" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of ""adjustable rate mortgages.""States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.(Sec. 404) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.(Sec. 405) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.(Sec. 406) Revises and defines specified terms.Title V: Native American Homeownership - Subtitle A: Native American Housing - Establishes the Lands Title Report Commission to facilitate home loan mortgages on Indian trust lands. Terminates the Commission one year after its initial meeting. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 502) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent the Indian housing loan guarantee authority.(Sec. 503) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) restrict the Secretary's authority to waive housing plan requirements to not more than 90 days; (2) permit the Secretary to waive local cooperation requirements upon a good faith showing and agreement to make certain payments in lieu of taxes; (3) permit assistance to Indian families that are not low-income upon a showing of need; (4) eliminate separate housing plan requirements for small tribes; (5) permit the Secretary to waive certain environmental review requirements under specified conditions; (6) permit reservation housing assistance for specified full-time Federal, State, county, or tribal law enforcement officers; (7) revise audit, review, and hearing provisions; (8) prescribe a funding formula for housing authorities operating fewer than 250 units based on an average of FY 1992 through 1997 allocations; and (9) repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements.Subtitle B: Native Hawaiian Housing - Hawaiian Homelands Home ownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.Describes eligible affordable housing activities. Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection. Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director. Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.(Sec. 524) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2001 through 2005 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal. Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.Sets forth eligible lender categories.Limits loans to 30-year terms. Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment. Establishes a loan guarantee fee. Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations. Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.Title VI: Manufactured Housing Improvement - Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to define specified terms.(Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary to establish manufactured home construction and safety standards in accordance with the consensus standards development process (provided for by this Act).Directs the Secretary to contract with: (1) a temporary administering organization to appoint the initial members of the consensus committee and administer the consensus standards development and related procedural and enforcement processes; and (2) a subsequent administering organization for the development of Federal standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.Establishes the consensus committee which shall provide the Secretary with periodic recommendations respecting Federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations. States that committee members shall represent producer, consumer, and general interest and public official interests. Sets forth related administrative provisions.(Sec. 605) Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.Requires manufacturers to provide approved design and installation instructions with each manufactured home.Requires, within specified deadlines: (1) the consensus committee to develop and submit to the Secretary proposed model manufactured home installation standards; and (2) the Secretary to develop model standards. Requires an opportunity for public comment prior to such standards' issuance. Prohibits a State or manufacturer, during the five-year period beginning with the enactment of this Act, from establishing manufactured home installation standards that provide less protection than existing standards. Directs the Secretary, not later than the expiration of such five-year period, to implement in a State that has not adopted a similar program a program which provides for: (1) installation standards and designs and instructions that meet or exceed model standards; (2) installer training and licensing; and (3) installation inspection.(Sec. 606) Directs the Secretary to submit cost information to the consensus committee.(Sec. 607) Includes among research and testing activities: (1) encouraging government-sponsored housing entities to implement secondary market securitization programs for manufactured home loans; and (2) reviewing the programs for Federal Housing Administration manufactured home loans.(Sec. 608) Makes it a prohibited act to fail to comply with the Secretary's installation standards in any State that has not adopted a State installation program.(Sec.609) Authorizes the Secretary to collect manufacturer fees, and sets forth their permitted and prohibited uses. Establishes in the Treasury a Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.Requires inspection and monitoring work to be carried out by independent contractors..Requires the Secretary to continue funding States with approved plans at levels not less than those existing immediately prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 610) Directs the Secretary to establish a dispute resolution program within five years of the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 611) Eliminates the manufactured housing annual reporting requirement.(Sec. 612) Sets forth effective date provisions.(Sec. 613) Sets forth savings provisions, including certain contract duration provisions.Title VII: Rural Housing Ownership - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to provide guarantees for rural housing loan refinancing.(Sec. 702) Increases from $2,500 to $7,500 the amount of a rural housing repair loan that needs to be evidenced only by a promissory note.(Sec. 703) Makes limited partnerships eligible for farm labor housing loans.(Sec. 704) Sets forth project accounting and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 705) Extends the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census.(Sec. 707) Makes Indian tribes (as defined by this Act) eligible for the multifamily rental housing loan guarantee program.(Sec. 708) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for rural housing program equity skimming. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil monetary penalties and prohibit renewal or extension of loan or assistance agreements for program violations.(Sec. 709) Amends Federal criminal law to include such equity skimming under money laundering provisions.Title VIII: Housing for Elderly and Disabled Families - Affordable Housing for Seniors and  Families Act - Subtitle A: Refinancing for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary: (1) to approve prepayment of indebtedness, including refinancing under specified conditions, provided the project sponsor continues to operate the project on terms at least as advantageous to tenants as required under the original agreement; and (2) upon refinancing, to use at least 50 percent of the resultant savings in a manner that is advantageous to the tenants.Subtitle B: Authorization of Appropriations for Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly.(Sec. 822) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.(Sec. 823) Authorizes FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for: (1) grants for service coordinators for elderly and disabled residents of certain federally assisted multifamily housing; and (2) contracts for congregate services for certain federally assisted housing.Subtitle C: Expanding Public Housing Opportunities for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Part 1: Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, with respect to supportive services for the elderly, to make for-profit limited partnerships eligible program participants.(Sec. 832) Permits owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 833) Expands acquisition authority.(Sec. 834) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 835) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 2: Housing for Persons with Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make certain for-profit limited partnerships eligible recipients under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program.(Sec. 842) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program to permit owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 843) Provides that tenant-based assistance may be provided  through a qualifying public housing agency or a private nonprofit organization. Limits tenant-based assistance to 25 percent of fiscal year program assistance.(Sec. 844) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 845) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Part 3: Other Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing.Includes telemarketing fraud  protection among the services provided to elderly residents of federally assisted housing and under the supportive housing program. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to establish related service coordinator guidelines.Subtitle D: Preservation of Affordable Stock - Amends the National Housing Act, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting rental and cooperative housing for lower-income families, to eliminate certain restrictions on owner retention of excess charges, including retention and use of certain previously collected excess charges.Subtitle E: Mortgage Insurance for Health Care Facilities - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize mortgage insurance for debt refinancing of existing integrated service facilities. Permits hospital, home, or facility refinancing to prepay a loan that is within two years of maturity. Permits use of refinancing proceeds for related maintenance and equipment.(Sec. 872) Includes within the definition of ""assisted living facility"" certain unlicensed facilities. Defines ""integrated service facility.""(Sec. 873) Revises hospital mortgage insurance provisions to: (1) eliminate from the definition of ""hospital"" the requirement that not more than 50 percent of patient days be for specified non-acute conditions; (2) include within the definition of ""mortgage"" parity first mortgages or deeds of trust; (3) permit, under specified conditions, an independent need and licensing certification study; and (4) provide for expedited mortgage insurance of public integrated service facilities.Title IX: Other Related Housing Provisions - Amends the National Housing Act to extend the insurance-eligible loan term for manufactured home lots to 20 years and 32 days.(Sec. 902) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, respecting enhanced section 8 voucher assistance, to: (1) include within the definition of ""eligibility event"" any termination or expiration of a contract for rental assistance during any fiscal year after 1994; and (2) provide that a maximum payment adversely affecting assisted families shall not be considered reasonable.(Sec. 904) Permits section 8 assistance to ""grand-families.""Title X: Banking and Housing Agency Reports - Federal Reporting Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to revise Federal Reserve System semi-annual reporting requirements.(Sec. 1003) Makes a specified provision of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (reporting requirements included on a list prepared by the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the first session of the 103rd Congress) inapplicable to certain monetary policy, banking, and housing reporting requirements under specified Acts.(Sec. 1004) Sets forth specified report coordination requirements respecting: (1) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; (2) the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; (3) the Comptroller of the Treasury; (4) the Export-Import Bank; (5) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and (6) the Federal Housing Administration.(Sec. 1005) Amends the: (1) Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to eliminate certain activity and fiscal authority reporting requirements of the Export-Import Bank; and (2) Federal Deposit Insurance Act to eliminate the requirement for a semiannual report on activities and efforts of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Title XI: Numismatic Coins - United States Mint Numismatic Coin Clarification Act of 2000 - Amends Federal monetary law to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue platinum bullion coins.Requires the Secretary include in the annual financial statement for the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund a supplemental fiscal year schedule that details costs and gross revenues for each denomination of circulating coins.Title XII: Financial Regulatory Relief - Financial Regulatory Relief and Economic Efficiency Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Improving Monetary Policy and Financial Institution Management Practices - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act (HOLA) to: (1) repeal savings association liquid asset requirements; and (2) permit a savings and loan holding company, with the prior approval by the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, to acquire more than five percent of the voting shares of a non-subsidiary savings association or non-subsidiary savings and loan holding company.(Sec. 1203) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) to repeal deposit broker notification and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 1204) Amends the National Bank Consolidation and Merger Act to prescribe expedited procedures permitting a national banking association to: (1) reorganize as either a bank holding company, or as a bank holding company subsidiary; or (2) merge with subsidiaries or nonbank affiliates.(Sec. 1205) Amends Federal banking law to increase from one year to three years the term of the national bank director. Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to exempt a national banking association from the 25-member limit on the number of members of an association's governing body.(Sec. 1207) Amends Federal banking law and the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that the purchase or acquisition by a national banking association or depository institution of its own capital stock to prevent loss upon a previously contracted debt be disposed of within six months from the time of purchase; and (2) provide that if an institution acquires its own stock to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted for in good faith, such transaction shall not be deemed to be a loan or discount on the security of its own capital stock.(Sec. 1208) Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 to increase from 90 percent to 100 percent of fair market value the permissible valuation of readily marketable purchased mortgage servicing rights that may be included in calculating an insured depository institution's tangible capital, risk-based capital, or leverage limit, if the Federal regulatory agencies jointly find that such an increase will not adversely affect the deposit insurance funds or the safety and soundness of insured depository institutions.Subtitle B: Streamlining Activities of Institutions - Requires that Federal banking agencies work jointly to develop: (1) electronic filing and public dissemination of depository institution status reports (call reports); and (2) uniform formats and simplified filing instructions for such reports.Subtitle C: Streamlining Agency Actions - Amends the FDIA to: (1) repeal the mandate that Federal banking agencies develop jointly a method for supplemental disclosures in required Federal filings of the estimated fair market value of depository institution assets and liabilities; (2) authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to establish the interest rate for or make post-insolvency interest payments to creditors' claims against the receivership estates of insured Federal or State depository institutions following satisfaction by the receiver of the principal amount of all creditor claims; and (3) mandate that Federal banking agencies jointly submit an annual report to certain congressional banking committees regarding differences in accounting and capital standards used by such agencies (currently such reports must be filed by the agencies individually).(Sec. 1224) Requires the agency responsible for review of the competitive factors in bank merger filings, to request a report solely from the Attorney General (currently, from the Attorney General and the other Federal banking agencies).Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 and the FDIA to require the Board and the responsible agency, respectively, to consider specified criteria concerning competitive effects before disapproving a bank merger transaction on the grounds of disproportionate anticompetitive effects.Subtitle D: Miscellaneous - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to authorize the Board to acquire sites or buildings.(Sec. 1232) Revises the positions of Board members on the Executive Schedule (increasing their salary levels).(Sec. 1233) Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to extend the deadline for the Finance Board's issuance of regulations respecting Federal home loan bank capital standards.Subtitle E: Technical Corrections - Makes technical corrections to related Acts.(Sec. 1243) Amends Federal banking law to: (1) authorize the Comptroller of the Currency to waive the citizenship requirement for a minority of the total number of directors sitting on the board of a national bank; (2) declare it is unlawful for the Comptroller to hold an interest in any national bank; and (3) repeal specified capital and surplus requirements for national banking associations.(Sec. 1244) Amends the International Bank Act of 1978 to modify examination requirements pertaining to establishment and operation by a foreign bank of Federal branches and agencies.",2025-04-07T13:46:38Z,
106-hr-2491,106,hr,2491,Fairness in Trusts and Estates Planning Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-13,1999-10-08,For Further Action See H.R.2684.,House,"Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-47]",CA,R,C000830,15,"Fairness in Trusts and Estates Planning Act - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize cooperative housing mortgage insurance for property held in trust, the beneficiary of which shall occupy the dwelling unit.",2025-08-20T14:19:03Z,
106-hr-2437,106,hr,2437,Justice in Fair Housing Enforcement Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-01,1999-10-28,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]",NC,R,J000255,1,Justice in Fair Housing Enforcement Act of 1999 - Amends the Fair Housing Act to exempt from handicapped accessibility requirements certain multifamily dwellings constructed in compliance with a local or State building code.,2025-08-20T14:21:14Z,
106-s-1318,106,s,1318,Affordable Housing Preservation Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-01,1999-07-01,Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT]",VT,R,J000072,8,Affordable Housing Preservation Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make matching grants to States to supplement State and local assistance for the preservation and promotion of low-income housing. Sets forth eligibility requirements for: (1) projects with Department of Housing and Urban Development-insured mortgages; (2) projects with section 8 project based assistance; (3) projects purchased by residents; and (4) rural rental assistance projects. Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-20T14:20:00Z,
106-s-1319,106,s,1319,Save My Home Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-01,1999-07-01,Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]",MO,R,B000611,1,"Save My Home Act of 1999 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to renew project-based rental housing contracts under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 at up to market levels. Directs the Secretary to: (1) offer to renew expired section 8 contracts at up to market levels in low-vacancy areas or areas with concentrations of elderly or disabled families; and (2) establish certain market rents. Authorizes ten-year section 8 contract renewals. (Sec. 5) Directs the Secretary to make enhanced voucher assistance (as defined by this Act) available for residents of projects with certain expiring section 8 contracts in low-vacancy areas, and authorizes such assistance for other covered low-income residents. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 6) Sets forth market value rent appraisal requirements. Directs the Secretary to establish an Appraisal Clearinghouse to collect data and develop model appraisal standards. (Sec. 7) Establishes appraisal-related staffing requirements. (Sec. 8) Authorizes the Secretary to contract with State or local housing finance agencies to perform market rental rate determinations. (Sec. 10) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified nonrenewed section 8 projects to nonprofit organizations (with preference for tenant organizations).",2025-08-20T14:20:47Z,
106-s-1325,106,s,1325,"A bill to amend the Applachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",Housing and Community Development,1999-07-01,1999-07-01,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Frist, William H. [R-TN]",TN,R,F000439,1,"Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1985 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
106-s-1333,106,s,1333,Promoting Housing Affordability for Working Families Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-07-01,2000-06-20,"Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held.",Senate,"Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]",OR,D,W000779,22,TABLE OF CONTENTS:      Title I: Removing Barriers to Housing Affordability      Title II: Removing Barriers to Use of FHA Single Family           Housing Mortgage Insurance Program      Title III: Home Investment Partnerships Program      Title IV: Community Development Block Grants Promoting Housing Affordability for Working Families Act of 1999 - Title I: Removing Barriers to Housing Affordability - Requires proposed and final agency rules to include analyses of their impact upon affordable housing availability.  Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to develop model housing impact analyses. (Sec. 102) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize direct appropriations for State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. (Consolidates State and local grant provisions.) Authorizes a State or local government to use grants to establish a Barriers to Housing Affordability Council. (Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make affordable housing barrier removal eligible for community development block grant assistance. (Sec. 104) States that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research. Title II: Removing Barriers to Use of FHA Single Family Housing Mortgage Insurance Program - Amends the National Housing Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary to enlarge areas and median prices for purposes of single family housing mortgage insurance eligibility; and (2) extend the manufactured home lot loan term. Title III: Home Investment Partnerships Program - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to make uniformed employees or teachers who are employees of a participating jurisdiction eligible for the home investment partnerships program. Title IV: Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make uniformed employees and teachers who are employees of a participating metropolitan city or urban county eligible for community development block grant home ownership assistance.,2026-02-10T13:38:48Z,
106-hr-2305,106,hr,2305,Revitalizing Cities Through Parks Enhancement Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-06-22,1999-07-15,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,M000087,18,Revitalizing Cities Through Parks Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to qualified community organizations to develop as open space municipally owned vacant lots in urban areas.Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-20T14:21:28Z,
106-hr-2231,106,hr,2231,Youngstown Community Center Development Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-06-15,1999-07-15,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]",OH,D,T000350,0,"Youngstown Community Center Development Act of 1999 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to: (1) increase the community development block grant set aside for special purpose grants; and (2) obligate FY 2000 funds for grants to Youngstown, Ohio, for construction of a community center and renovation of the (South Field House) Sports Complex.",2025-08-20T14:18:33Z,
106-hr-1797,106,hr,1797,FHA Property Inspection Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-05-13,1999-05-28,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]",IL,D,D000096,1,FHA Property Inspection Act - Amends the National Housing Act to require that properties undergo a compliance inspection by a certified building inspector in order to qualify for single family housing mortgage insurance.  Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish inspector certification standards.,2025-08-20T14:21:24Z,
106-hr-1776,106,hr,1776,American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000,Housing and Community Development,1999-05-12,2000-06-20,"Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation. Hearings held.",House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,155,"American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 - Title I: Removal of Barriers to Housing Affordability - Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000 - Requires proposed and final agency rules (with exceptions for certain banking rules) to analyze their impact upon affordable housing availability, including provision for interested parties to offer alternatives, which shall be incorporated into the final rule if found to accomplish required objectives with a less deleterious effect upon housing.Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to develop model housing impact analyses.(Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for (consolidated) State and local grants for regulatory barrier removal. Makes consortia of local governments eligible grantees. Requires grant use in coordination with the local comprehensive affordability strategy under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.(Sec. 104) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require jurisdictions to make good faith efforts at affordable housing barrier removal in order to qualify for community development block grants (CDBG) (without creating a private right of action).(Sec. 105) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to state that the regulatory barriers clearinghouse shall be established within the Office of Policy Development of HUD under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.Title II: Homeownership Through Mortgage Insurance and Loan Guarantees - Amends the National Housing Act to extend the loan term for manufactured home lot purchases.(Sec. 202) Modifies Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance downpayment requirements.(Sec. 203) Provides for one percent downpayments for FHA mortgage loans for qualified elementary (including pre-kindergarten) and secondary school teachers and administrators and non-Federal public safety officers to purchase homes within the jurisdictions of their employing agencies.(Sec. 204) Directs the Secretary, in order to prevent fraud in the rehabilitation loan program, to: (1) prohibit indemnity of interest between specified loan parties; (2) establish standards for participating nonprofit organizations; (3) prohibit final loan disbursement until rehabilitation completion; (4) establish consultant standards; and (5) require contractor qualification. Directs the Secretary to report on participating nonprofit organizations.(Sec. 205) Community Partners Next Door Act - Establishes a discounted (50 percent) home purchase and downpayment assistance program for qualified elementary (including pre-kindergarten) and secondary teachers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and rescue personnel for FY 2000 through 2004. Authorizes the Secretary to sell properties directly to a teacher or public safety officer or indirectly to a unit of local government or nonprofit organization for resale to such individual. Requires a minimum three-year residence.(Sec. 206) Revises the current demonstration mortgage reinsurance program to: (1) make such program a risk-sharing program served by private mortgage insurers and  insured community development financial institutions (as defined by this Act); (2) enlarge the program to four administrative areas; and (3) require such entities to assume the first loss of an insured mortgage.(Sec. 207) Includes within the insured loan program a hybrid adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) that is fixed for at least the first three years. Requires disclosure of ARM features to prospective mortgagors.(Sec. 208) Authorizes the Secretary to insure refinancing of home equity conversions for elderly home owners. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.Includes housing cooperatives in the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly home owners. Directs the Secretary to waive up-front premiums for mortgages used for costs of long-term care insurance or health care.(Sec. 209) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program to assist qualifying law enforcement officers (including correctional officers) purchase homes in locally designated high crime areas. Provides for: (1) no downpayment; and (2) inclusion of closing costs and a single required insurance payment in the loan amount. Sunsets the program three years after assistance is made available.(Sec. 210) Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of mandatory inspection requirements under the single family housing mortgage insurance program.(Sec. 211) Directs the Secretary to report on the property improvement loan insurance program.(Sec. 212) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary should consult with other Federal agencies that hold housing-appropriate property to determine the possibility of including such properties in programs that make housing available for law enforcement officers, teachers, and fire fighters.(Sec. 213) Amends the National Housing Act to increase the property improvement loan limit for single-family homes.Title III: Section 8 Homeownership Option - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide a single grant home ownership downpayment option (in lieu of monthly payments) under the section 8 housing assistance program.(Sec. 302) Authorizes a public housing agency providing tenant-based section 8 housing assistance to provide assistance for a qualifying disabled family that purchases a home which will be owned and occupied by one or more members of such family. Sets forth program provisions.(Sec. 303) Authorizes FY 2001 appropriations (with a 50 percent matching requirement) for homeownership programs under the section 8 homeownership demonstration program.Title IV: Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the CDBG program. Modifies the definition of ""city"" with respect to certain towns or townships, and the definition of ""urban county.""(Sec. 402) Prohibits set-asides, with specified exceptions.(Sec. 403) Extends through FY 2006 the 25 percent public services cap for the City and County of Los Angeles, California.(Sec. 404) Authorizes block grant use for: (1) qualifying teacher and municipal employee (including police officers, fire fighters, and sanitation and other maintenance workers) first-time homeownership assistance; and (2) brownfields projects environmental cleanup and economic development in conjunction with the appropriate environmental regulatory agencies. States that such homeownership assistance shall be intended for low- and moderate-income individuals.(Sec. 406) Directs the Secretary to grant (in addition to specified other exemptions) at least ten jurisdictions income eligibility exemptions for purposes of the CDBG and HOME investment partnership programs.(Sec. 407) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the housing opportunities for persons with AIDS program.(Sec. 408) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to prohibit the use of CDBG funds to acquire real property owned by a tax exempt church without the prior consent of the church's governing body.(Sec. 409) Increases the CDBG aggregate special purpose grant set-aside. Obligates specified FY 2001 amounts for Youngstown, Ohio, for site acquisition, planning, design, and construction of a convocation and community center.Title V: Home Investment Partnerships Program - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for affordable housing programs, including the HOME investment partnership program. Prohibits set-asides, with specified exceptions.Authorizes the Secretary to make up to three grants for each of FY 2001 and 2002 to eligible consortia of local government (at least one of which shall be a multi-State consortia) in order to develop comprehensive regional housing affordability strategies.(Sec. 502) Makes limited equity cooperatives and mutual housing associations eligible for home investment partnerships.(Sec. 503) Permits the extended use of administrative and planning funds.(Sec. 504) Permits loan pool investment of partnership funds. Treats such mixed income loan pools as affordable housing under specified conditions.(Sec. 505) Makes qualifying municipal employees (including teachers) eligible for home ownership assistance.(Sec. 506) Permits the use of section 8 rental assistance for families with grandparent-grandchildren residents, but without any parent of such children.(Sec. 507) Authorizes the Secretary to make home investment partnership loan guarantees. Sets forth an aggregate loan guarantee limitation.(Sec. 508) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program under which jurisdictions participating in the HOME program and cities or urban counties participating in the CDBG program may use such amounts for downpayment assistance to eligible homebuyers for purchases of 2- and 3-family residences.Title VI: Local Homeownership Initiatives - Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize FY 2001 through 2005 appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Obligates specified FY 2001 funds for certain duplex homeownership programs.(Sec. 602) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to revise the home ownership zone grant program, including providing: (1) grant eligibility for units of general local government (currently nonprofit organizations); and (2) assistance targeting for specified low-income home buyers. Authorizes FY 2001 and 2002 appropriations. Prohibits adverse treatment of an application solely because the homeownership zone is located within unincorporated areas.(Sec. 603) Expresses the sense of Congress in favor of lease-to-own tenancies as home ownership tools.(Sec. 604) Amends the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 to make the National Association of Housing Partnerships eligible for local capacity grants. Removes the specified amount of authorized appropriations.(Sec. 605) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to provide for a consolidated application and planning submission under the following programs: (1) HOME investment partnerships; (2) CDBG; (3) the economic development initiative; (4) emergency shelter grants; and (5) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.(Sec. 606) Amends the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996 to authorize FY 2001 through 2003 appropriations for self-help housing providers. Permits fund advancement for land acquisition prior to approval of any required environmental review. Permits projects with five or more units to use their funds over a 36-month period.(Sec. 607) Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to make cooperative housing eligible for housing counseling funds.Extends the emergency home ownership counseling and the prepurchase and foreclosure prevention counseling programs through FY 2005.(Sec. 608) Amends the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to include among eligible grant activities: (1) leasing of lead-free temporary housing; and (2) access to residential lead-based paint poisoning prevention services at centralized locations.(Sec. 609) Makes religious organizations eligible for HUD financial assistance on the same basis as other nongovernmental organizations as long as the program is implemented in a manner consistent with the Establishment Clause of the Free Exercise Clause of the first amendment to the Constitution. States that such a recipient organization shall: (1) retain its religious character; (2) maintain its employment practices exemption; and (3) not use such funds for sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization.Title VII: Native American Homeownership - Subtitle A: Native American Housing - Establishes the Lands Title Report Commission to facilitate home loan mortgages on Indian trust lands. Terminates the Commission one year after its initial meeting. Authorizes appropriations.(Sec. 702) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent the Indian housing loan guarantee authority.(Sec. 703) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to: (1) restrict the Secretary's authority to waive housing plan requirements to not more than 90 days; (2) permit the Secretary to waive local cooperation requirements upon a good faith showing and agreement to make certain payments in lieu of taxes; (3) permit assistance to Indian families that are not low-income upon a showing of need; (4) eliminate separate housing plan requirements for small tribes; (5) permit the Secretary to waive certain environmental review requirements under specified conditions; (6) permit reservation housing assistance for specified full-time Federal, State, county, or tribal law enforcement officers; (7) revise audit, review, and hearing provisions; (8) prescribe a funding formula for housing authorities operating fewer than 250 units based on an average of FY 1992 through 1997 allocations; and (9) repeal the requirement regarding the certification of compliance with subsidy layering requirements.Subtitle B: Native Hawaiian Housing - Hawaiian Homelands Homeownership Act of 2000 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new Title VIII, Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians. Directs the Secretary to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary. Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing. Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.Describes eligible affordable housing activities. Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection. Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments. Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director. Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.(Sec. 724) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2001 through 2005 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets. Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal. Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.Sets forth eligible lender categories.Limits loans to 30-year terms. Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment. Establishes a loan guarantee fee. Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations. Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act. Authorizes appropriations through FY 2005.Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.Title VIII: Transfer of Unoccupied and Substandard HUD-Held Housing to Local Governments and Nonprofit Organizations - Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 to direct the Secretary to transfer ownership of qualified HUD-held properties (substandard or unoccupied multifamily or unoccupied single family properties) to local governments and community development corporations under specified conditions. Requires such properties to be held by HUD for at least six months.(Sec 802) Directs the Secretary, upon request of the appropriate jurisdiction, to designate as a revitalization area all portions of such jurisdiction meeting the necessary criteria.Title IX: Private Mortgage Insurance Cancellation and Termination - Private Mortgage Insurance Technical Corrections and Clarification Act - Amends the Homeowners Protection Act of 1998 with respect to the definition of ""cancellation date"" to replace ""amortization schedules"" with, and define, ""amortization schedule the in effect"" for purposes of adjustable rate mortgages.Includes balloon mortgages within the definition of ""adjustable rate mortgages.""States that if a residential mortgage loan is modified (with mortgagor-mortgagee agreement) the cancellation date, termination date, or final agreement shall be recalculated to reflect such modifications.(Sec. 904) Extends mortgage insurance cancellation rights beyond the cancellation date for a qualifying borrower who is current on required payments.(Sec. 905) Revises the automatic termination date with respect to a mortgagor who is not current on payments as of the mortgage termination date.States that the cancellation or termination of private mortgage insurance shall not affect the rights of any mortgagee, servicer, or insurer to enforce any accrued obligation for premium payments.(Sec. 906) Revises and defines specified terms.Title X: Rural Housing Ownership - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to increase from $2,500 to $7,500 the amount of a rural housing repair loan that needs to be evidenced only by a promissory note.(Sec. 1002) Makes limited partnerships eligible for farm labor housing loans.(Sec. 1003) Sets forth project accounting and recordkeeping requirements.(Sec. 1004) Extends the rural designation of certain areas until the 2010 census.(Sec. 1006) Makes Indian organizations (as defined by this Act) eligible for the multifamily rental housing loan guarantee program.(Sec. 1007) Establishes civil and criminal penalties for rural housing program equity skimming. Authorizes the Secretary to impose civil monetary penalties and prohibit renewal or extension of loan or assistance agreements for program violations.(Sec. 1008) Amends Federal criminal law to include such equity skimming under money laundering provisions.Title XI: Manufactured Housing Improvement - Manufactured Housing Improvement Act - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to define specified terms.(Sec. 1104) Directs the Secretary to establish manufactured home construction and safety standards in accordance with the consensus standards development process (provided for by this Act).Directs the Secretary to contract with: (1) a temporary administering organization to appoint the initial members of the consensus committee and administer the consensus standards development and related procedural and enforcement processes; and (2) a subsequent administering organization for the development of Federal standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.Establishes the consensus committee which shall provide the Secretary with periodic recommendations respecting Federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations. States that committee members shall represent producer, consumer, and general interest and public official interests. Sets forth related administrative provisions.(Sec. 1105) Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council.Requires manufacturers to provide approved design and installation instructions with each manufactured home.Requires, within specified deadlines: (1) the consensus committee to develop and submit to the Secretary proposed model manufactured home installation standards; and (2) the Secretary to develop model standards. Requires an opportunity for public comment prior to such standards' issuance. Prohibits a State or manufacturer, during the five-year period beginning with the enactment of this Act, from establishing manufactured home installation standards that provide less protection than existing standards. Directs the Secretary, not later than the expiration of such five-year period, to implement in a State that has not adopted a similar program a program which provides for: (1) installation standards and designs and instructions that meet or exceed model standards; (2) installer training and licensing; and (3) installation inspection.(Sec. 1106) Directs the Secretary to submit cost information to the consensus committee.(Sec. 1107) Includes among research and testing activities: (1) encouraging government-sponsored housing entities to implement secondary market securitization programs for manufactured home loans; and (2) reviewing the programs for Federal Housing Administration manufactured home loans.(Sec. 1108) Makes it a prohibited act to fail to comply with the Secretary's installation standards in any State that has not adopted a State installation program.(Sec. 1109) Authorizes the Secretary to collect manufacturer fees, and sets forth their permitted and prohibited uses. Establishes in the Treasury a Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.Sets forth contractor requirements.Requires the Secretary to continue funding States with approved plans at levels not less than those existing immediately prior to enactment of this Act.(Sec. 1110) Directs the Secretary to establish a dispute resolution program within five years of the enactment of this Act.(Sec. 1111) Eliminates the manufactured housing annual reporting requirement.(Sec. 1112) Sets forth effective date provisions.(Sec. 1113) Sets forth savings provisions, including certain contract duration provisions.Title XII: Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Program - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to make drug elimination grants available to public housing authorities that have largely eliminated drug and crime problems but need to maintain or expand police services in order to sustain such conditions.",2025-04-07T13:46:46Z,
106-hr-1718,106,hr,1718,"To amend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",Housing and Community Development,1999-05-06,1999-05-07,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Transportation.",House,"Rep. Bryant, Ed [R-TN-7]",TN,R,B000996,4,"Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1985 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",2025-01-02T17:10:40Z,
106-hr-1624,106,hr,1624,Elderly Housing Quality Improvement Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-29,1999-05-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-29]",NY,D,L000556,32,"Elderly Housing Quality Improvement Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to eligible housing owners for elderly housing capital repair and conversion to assisted living facilities.  Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 3) Authorizes, and sets forth the conditions under which, the Secretary shall approve sponsor prepayment and refinancing of principal and interest for elderly or handicapped project loans under the Housing Act of 1959. Amends the National Housing Act to permit multifamily project rehabilitation loans to be made from recaptured interest reduction contracts.  Revises capital grant project eligibility. (Sec. 4) Authorizes appropriations, with respect to specified elderly and disabled housing, for: (1) service coordinator grants under the National Housing Act; (2) congregate services contacts under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.; (3) additional renewals and contracts not renewed in FY 1998 (directs the Secretary to use specified FY 1999 appropriations to renew all FY 1998 grants for service coordinators and congregate services); and (4) service coordinator and congregate services grants under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing. (Sec. 5) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit section 8 voucher and project-based assistance to be used for the rental costs of principal residence assisted living facilities. (Sec. 6) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of incremental section 8 vouchers for assisted living facilities for low-income elderly families.  Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 7) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to: (1) authorize appropriations for new construction of elderly affordable housing; and (2) authorize additional appropriations to encourage leveraging of funds from other sources or development of additional affordable moderate-income elderly housing.",2025-08-20T14:21:03Z,
106-hr-1627,106,hr,1627,Homelessness Assistance Funding Fairness Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-29,1999-05-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Baldacci, John Elias [D-ME-2]",ME,D,B000081,5,Homelessness Assistance Funding Fairness Act - Amends the Stewart B.McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to provide for specified minimum State allocations under the: (1) supportive housing program; (2) section 8 single room occupancy moderate rehabilitation program; and (3) shelter plus care program.,2025-08-20T14:19:58Z,
106-s-913,106,s,913,Homelessness Assistance Funding Fairness Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-29,1999-04-29,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]",ME,R,C001035,2,Homelessness Assistance Funding Fairness Act - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to provide for specified minimum State allocations under the: (1) supportive housing program; (2) section 8 single room occupancy moderate rehabilitation program; and (3) shelter plus care program.,2025-08-20T14:16:57Z,
106-hr-1618,106,hr,1618,Housing Counseling Enhancement Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-28,1999-05-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17]",OH,D,T000350,0,Housing Counseling Enhancement Act - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to: (1) extend the emergency home ownership counseling program; (2) extend the authorization of appropriations for the prepurchase and foreclosure prevention counseling demonstration; and (3) require notification of delinquency on veterans' home loans.,2025-08-20T14:19:15Z,
106-hr-1479,106,hr,1479,To amend the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to provide for renewal of contracts for rental assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for moderate rehabilitation projects in the same manner as other projects with such expiring contracts.,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-20,1999-04-30,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,A000210,0,Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to eliminate the special rental determination for renewals of expiring section 8 contracts for moderate rehabilitation projects.,2025-01-02T17:10:22Z,
106-hr-1364,106,hr,1364,Veterans' Equity Act of 1997,Housing and Community Development,1999-04-12,1999-04-30,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Andrews, Robert E. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,A000210,0,Veterans' Equity Act of 1997 - Excludes certain amounts received under veterans' compensation programs from adjusted income for purposes of determining the amount of rent a family will pay for public housing.,2025-08-20T14:18:42Z,
106-hr-1315,106,hr,1315,Public Services Flexibility Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-25,1999-04-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-28]",CA,R,D000492,12,"Public Services Flexibility Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to make permanent the cap on the percentage of community development block grant funds that may be used to provide public services to the City or County of Los Angeles, or any other unit of general local government in the County.",2025-08-20T14:21:38Z,
106-hr-1336,106,hr,1336,Emergency Resident Protection Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-25,1999-05-04,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,20,Emergency Resident Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to provide enhanced vouchers for residents of projects with expiring contracts under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937.  Authorizes specified appropriations. Sets forth expiring contract renewal rates based upon comparable market rents. Authorizes interest reduction payments for project mortgage refinancing. Amends the National Housing Act to authorize project owners under the rental and cooperative housing program to retain excess income.,2025-08-20T14:17:42Z,
106-hr-1352,106,hr,1352,Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims' Housing Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-25,1999-04-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]",IL,D,S001145,42,"Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims' Housing Act - Increases a specified authorization of appropriations under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to be used to provide housing assistance for individuals or families victimized by domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault.",2025-08-20T14:18:06Z,
106-hr-1255,106,hr,1255,"To amend the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",Housing and Community Development,1999-03-24,1999-03-26,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, Hazardous Materials and Pipeline Transportation.",House,"Rep. Ford, Harold E., Jr. [D-TN-9]",TN,D,F000262,3,"Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1985 to add Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, and Wayne Counties, Tennessee, to the Appalachian region.",2025-01-02T17:10:10Z,
106-s-709,106,s,709,Rural and Remote Community Fairness Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-24,1999-03-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]",AK,R,M001085,3,"TABLE OF CONTENTS:      Title I:  Rural and Remote Community Development Block Grants      Title II:  Rural and Remote Community Electrification Grants The Rural and Remote Community Fairness Act - Title I:  Rural and Remote Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize (including appropriations) a rural and remote community development block grant program.  Sets forth eligible program activities, including housing, water and waste water, and fuel and energy enhancements. Title II:  Rural and Remote Community Electrification Grants - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize (including appropriations) rural and remote community electrification grants. Title III:  Rural Recovery Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize (including appropriations) rural housing and community development assistance through rural recovery community development block grants for eligible local governments and Indian tribes in areas with high rates of outmigration and low per capita income.",2025-08-20T14:20:00Z,
106-hjres-39,106,hjres,39,Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to a home.,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-16,1999-03-31,Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.,House,"Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15]",NY,D,R000053,2,"Constitutional Amendment - States that all U.S. citizens shall have a right to a home, which right shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State.",2025-01-02T17:08:40Z,
106-hr-1112,106,hr,1112,Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac),Housing and Community Development,1999-03-16,1999-10-08,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,M000087,42,"Children's Development Commission Act (Kiddie Mac) - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure mortgages for:  (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including mortgage insurance for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) purchase or refinance of existing child care and development facilities. Establishes the Children's Development Commission which shall:  (1) issue facility standards and compliance certifications; and (2) make loans not in excess of $50,000 for facility rehabilitation or renovation.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of the availability of child care facility secondary mortgage markets.",2025-08-20T14:21:34Z,
106-hr-1126,106,hr,1126,To require newly-constructed multifamily housing in New York City to comply with the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974.,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-16,1999-03-22,Referred to the Subcommittee on Basic Research.,House,"Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,M000087,5,"Amends Federal law to repeal the provision providing certain newly-constructed multifamily housing in New York City, New York, with an exception from specified automatic sprinkler fire prevention requirements.",2025-01-02T17:09:56Z,
106-hr-1073,106,hr,1073,Homeless Housing Programs Consolidation and Flexibility Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-11,1999-04-15,Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,4,"Homeless Housing Programs Consolidation and Flexibility Act - Amends the Stewart B.  McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Act) to authorize appropriations through FY 2004 for the Federal Emergency Management Agency food and shelter program. (Sec. 5) Consolidates the existing homeless housing programs under title IV of such Act into a permanent housing development and flexible block grant homeless assistance program. Makes grants available to States, cities, urban counties, and insular areas. Defines ""eligible grantees"" to be: (1) with respect to grants for insular areas, the insular area, or a designated entity, including a private nonprofit entity; and (2) with respect to grants for permanent housing development and flexible assistance, the State, local government, or designated entity. Authorizes grantees to transfer funds for eligible activities to project sponsors.  Sets forth selection criteria. Sets forth allocation provisions for: (1) insular areas; (2) permanent housing development grants; and (3) flexible block grant homeless assistance. Sets forth matching fund and program requirements.  Requires consultation regarding the use of available National Guard facilities as homeless shelters.  Establishes and obligates funds for a companion services block grant program to be carried out through the Interagency Council on the Homeless in cases of inadequate assistance for the homeless. Authorizes permanent housing development grant use to construct, rehabilitate, or acquire permanent housing.  Prohibits fund use for supportive services.  Requires: (1) at least 50 percent use through nonprofit organizations (with an available waiver); and (2) targeting of special populations. Authorizes flexible block grant use for: (1) construction, acquisition, rehabilitation, leasing, and operation of supportive housing; (2) homelessness prevention; (3) permanent housing activities; (4) emergency shelter; (5) supportive services; and (6) technical assistance. Requires at least 50 percent use through nonprofit organizations (with an available waiver).  Includes within supportive housing transitional housing, single room occupancy dwellings, and safe haven housing. Considers a facility as emergency shelter if it is designed to provide overnight sleeping accommodations for the homeless, including eating and cooking accommodations. Sets forth reporting requirements for: (1) grantees; and (2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  Authorizes appropriations through FY 2004. (Sec. 6) Revises responsibilities of the Interagency Council on the Homeless.  Extends the Council's termination date through October 1, 2004.  Obligates specified amounts for the Council from appropriations to carry out such Act. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to request that each executive agency identify facilities under its jurisdiction that would be suitable for overnight homeless shelters. (Sec. 8) Repeals specified provisions and makes conforming amendments to the following Acts: (1) HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (innovative homeless initiatives); (2) Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (FHA single family property disposition for homeless use); (3) Housing Act of 1949 (housing for rural homeless and migrant farmworkers); (4) United States Housing Act of 1937 (SRO assistance program); and (5) Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (youthbuild). (Sec. 9) Provides that: (1) existing agreements will not be abrogated by this Act; and (2) previously obligated funds will be subject to such Act as in effect prior to enactment of this Act.",2025-08-20T14:20:43Z,
106-sconres-16,106,sconres,16,A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the Government National Mortgage Association guaranty fee should not be increased to provide increased revenues or the Federal Government to offset other expenditures.,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-05,1999-03-05,Referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. Grams, Rod [R-MN]",MN,R,G000367,1,Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Government National Mortgage Association guaranty fee should not be increased.,2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
106-hr-1008,106,hr,1008,Robert Stodola Homeless Veterans Assistance Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-03-04,1999-03-31,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Metcalf, Jack [R-WA-2]",WA,R,M000669,57,"Robert Stodola Homeless Veterans Assistance Act - Amends the Stewart B.  McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to require each city, county, State, and Indian tribe which is provided assistance under the following programs to ensure that not less than 20 percent of the total amount received by such entity is used for activities benefiting homeless veterans: (1) the emergency shelter grants program; (2) the supportive housing program; (3) the safe havens for homeless individuals demonstration program; (4) a program for single room occupancy dwellings; (5) the shelter plus care program; and (6) the rural homelessness grant program.  Provides for related technical assistance.  Allows a waiver of such requirement in each case upon a determination that general program funds will remain unused for an unreasonable period of time unless the waiver is permitted.",2025-08-20T14:16:54Z,
106-s-485,106,s,485,Urban Homestead Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-02-25,1999-02-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,Senate,"Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]",AZ,R,M000303,0,"Urban Homestead Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) semiannually publish in the Federal Register a list of unoccupied multifamily housing projects, substandard housing projects, and other residential property owned by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for at least six months; and (2) transfer ownership to a requesting community development corporation. Directs the Secretary to satisfy any related indebtedness.  Exempts such property transfers from disposition requirements under the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994.",2025-08-20T14:19:00Z,
106-hr-710,106,hr,710,Manufactured Housing Improvement Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-02-11,1999-02-25,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,165,"Manufactured Housing Improvement Act - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to revise Federal construction and safety provisions for manufactured homes based upon a consensus standards development process. Eliminates the National Manufactured Home Advisory Council. Revises related fee provisions to: (1) apply such fees to manufactured home manufacturers (currently fees apply to manufacturers, distributors, and dealers); and (2) establish in the Treasury the Manufactured Housing Fees Trust Fund.",2025-08-20T14:19:30Z,
106-hr-425,106,hr,425,Housing Preservation Matching Grant Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-19,1999-02-12,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Vento, Bruce F. [D-MN-4]",MN,D,V000087,63,Housing Preservation Matching Grant Act of 1999 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make matching grants to States for low-income housing preservation. Sets forth requirements for projects: (1) with Department of Housing and Urban Development-insured mortgages; (2) with section 8 assistance; or (3) purchased by the residents. Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-20T14:16:55Z,
106-s-225,106,s,225,Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Amendments of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-19,2000-02-18,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,1,"Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Amendments of 1999 - Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to add a new title, Title VIII - Housing Assistance for Native Hawaiians.   Directs the Secretary of  Housing and Urban Development to make block grants to carry out affordable housing activities for Native Hawaiian families on or near Hawaiian Home Lands..   Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (defined as the agency or department of Hawaii responsible for administration of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920) only if the Director of the Department has submitted a housing plan that meets requirements under this Act, unless otherwise waived by the Secretary.   Sets forth plan terms, conditions, and requirements, including a condition that, to the extent practicable, the Department use private nonprofit organizations in the planning and development of such housing.   Provides for plan review by the Secretary.Sets forth provisions regarding the treatment of program income, project labor standards, and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.Limits assistance for affordable housing activities under the program to low-income Native Hawaiian families, with specified exceptions for: (1) certain home ownership activities; and (2) assistance to non-Native Hawaiians if the presence of the family in the housing involved is essential to the well-being of Native Hawaiian families and the housing need cannot be met without assistance.Describes eligible affordable housing activities.   Sets forth program requirements, including the development of policies governing rents, home buyer payments, eligibility, management, leases, and tenant selection.   Sets the maximum monthly rent or home buyer payment at 30 percent of the monthly adjusted family income.Directs the Secretary, in instances of substantial Department noncompliance, to terminate, reduce, or limit payments.   Authorizes the Secretary, in addition to such actions, to refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action.  Sets forth review, auditing, and reporting requirements for the Secretary and the Director.   Provides for discretionary audits by the Comptroller General.  Authorizes appropriations through FY 2004.(Sec. 4) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize the Secretary to guarantee up to $100 million in loans from approved lenders in each of FY 2000 through 2004 to provide access to sources of private financing to Native Hawaiian families who could otherwise not acquire housing financing because of the unique legal status of the Hawaiian Home Lands or as a result of a lack of access to private financial markets.   Authorizes loan guarantees of up to 100 percent of unpaid interest and principal.   Provides that a loan will be used to construct, acquire, or rehabilitate not more than four-family dwellings that are standard housing and located on Hawaiian Home Lands for which an approved housing plan to provide affordable home ownership housing applies.Sets forth eligible lender categories.Limits loans to 30-year terms.   Permits the Secretary to guarantee a loan only upon determining that there is a reasonable prospect of repayment.   Establishes a loan guarantee fee.  Authorizes loan transfer and assumption, subject to governmental supervision.Provides for lender disqualification for specified violations, and civil monetary penalties for intentional violations.  Establishes a Hawaiian Housing Guarantee Fund for the purpose of providing loan guarantees under this Act.   Authorizes appropriations through FY 2004.Directs the Secretary to establish safety and quality standards for housing financed under these provisions.",2025-06-20T19:33:16Z,
106-s-23,106,s,23,New Urban Agenda Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-19,1999-01-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.,Senate,"Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]",PA,R,S000709,1,"TABLE OF CONTENTS:      Title I: Federal Commitment to Urban Economic Development      Title II: Tax Incentives to Stimulate Urban Economic           Development      Title III: Community-Based Housing Development      Title IV: Response to Urban Environmental Challenges New Urban Agenda Act of 1999 - Title I: Federal Commitment to Urban Economic Development - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require executive agencies to expend not less than 15 percent in each fiscal year for the purchase of goods from businesses located in empowerment zones or enterprise communities. Requires agencies, to the maximum extent practicable, to purchase recycled products from businesses located in such zones or communities. Requires the Administrator of General Services to submit to the Congress, in writing, the Administrator's assessment of the extent to which executive agencies are committed, by policy and practice, to encouraging and supporting economic renewal in such zones and enterprise communities. (Sec. 102) Requires not less than 15 percent of foreign assistance provided in a fiscal year to be in the form of credits for the purchase of U.S. goods produced, manufactured, or assembled in such zones or communities. (Sec. 103) Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in designating and providing financial assistance to Manufacturing Technology Outreach Centers, to give preference to centers located in such zones and communities. (Sec. 104) Establishes a preference for the construction, improvement, or relocation of Federal facilities in distressed urban areas. Title II: Tax Incentives to Stimulate Urban Economic Development - Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the offset for rental real estate activities under passive activity rules to increase the rehabilitation credit under such rules. (Sec. 202) Allows the rehabilitation investment credit to offset a portion of tentative minimum tax. (Sec. 203) Allows the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds for sports facilities, convention or trade show facilities, freestanding parking facilities, air or water pollution control facilities, or industrial parks.  Makes termination dates on such tax-exempt bonds inapplicable to bonds issued to finance manufacturing facilities. (Sec. 204) Increases the permitted amount of qualified small issue bonds for facilities to be used by related persons. (Sec. 205) Provides an exception to arbitrage interest rebate provisions if 100 percent of available construction proceeds are spent for governmental purposes within three years of the issuance of the tax-exempt bonds. (Sec. 206) Makes 75 percent of a qualified residential project bond exempt from State agency volume caps for the issuance of tax-exempt private activity bonds. (Sec. 207) Increases the amount and duration of the targeted jobs tax credit to 50 (currently 40) percent of the qualifying wages earned for the first three years (currently, only for the first year) of the employment. (Sec. 208) Excludes from gross income any qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a qualified zone asset (stock, property, or partnership interest that was part of an enterprise zone business) held more than three years. Provides for the tax treatment of pass-thru entities and sales and exchanges of interests in partnerships and S corporations which are qualified zone businesses. (Sec. 209) Allows a homebuyer tax credit of up to $5,000 for individuals who purchase a principal residence in an empowerment zone or enterprise community. Title III: Community-Based Housing Development - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to study and report to the Comptroller General on the feasibility of consolidating existing public and low-income housing programs into a comprehensive block grant system of Federal aid and on the possibility of administering future programs through such a system.  Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress with an analysis of such report and recommendations. Title IV: Response to Urban Environmental Challenges -Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to prohibit the President or any other person from bringing an enforcement action under such Act, with respect to an urban nonlisted facility against a person that has fulfilled all requirements under State and local law to conduct environmental response actions at such facility. (Sec. 402) Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain the brownfield program (a program for the expansion or redevelopment of abandoned or underused commercial or industrial property at which a hazardous substance may be present) established by the Administrator before the enactment of this section. Limits to $200,000 the maximum grant to any single brownfield facility.  Authorizes appropriations for such program for FY 2000 through 2002 out of the Hazardous Substance Superfund. (Sec. 403) Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the urban and community forestry assistance program.",2025-08-20T14:20:43Z,
106-hconres-10,106,hconres,10,Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Government National Mortgage Association guaranty fee should not be increased.,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-06,1999-01-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Weller, Jerry [R-IL-11]",IL,R,W000273,17,Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Government National Mortgage Association guaranty fee should not be increased.,2025-01-02T17:07:22Z,
106-hr-176,106,hr,176,State Occupancy Standards Affirmation Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-06,1999-01-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-8]",FL,R,M000350,3,"State Occupancy Standards Affirmation Act of 1999 - Amends the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 to provide that: (1) a State standard shall be considered reasonable for purposes of determining familial status discrimination; and (2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the absence of a State standard, shall take no action respecting a two-person per bedroom standard established by a housing provider. Defines ""occupancy standard.""",2025-08-20T14:21:31Z,
106-hr-202,106,hr,202,Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and Families into the 21st Century Act,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-06,1999-09-28,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.,House,"Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2]",NY,R,L000155,30,"Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and Families into the 21st Century Act - Title I: Conversion of Financing and Refinancing for Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon request of the owner of a project assisted under section 202 (supportive services for the elderly) of the Housing Act of 1959 (as in effect prior to enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act) and section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, or any other Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rental assistance program, to convert: (1) any such housing project financing to section 202 financing as amended by the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and (2) section 8 and other rental assistance to section 202 capital advances and project rental assistance. Provides for: (1) project debt cancellation; (2) tenant protections; and (3) analysis of such cancellation's  budgetary effect.(Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary: (1) to approve prepayment of indebtedness, including refinancing under specified conditions, provided the project sponsor continues to operate the project on terms at least as advantageous to tenants as required under the original agreement; and (2) upon refinancing, to use at least 50 percent of the resultant savings in a manner that is advantageous to the tenants.Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for Supportive Housing for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize FY 2000 through 2004 appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly.(Sec. 202) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize FY 2000 through 2004 appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.(Sec. 203) Authorizes FY 2000 through 2002 appropriations for: (1) grants for service coordinators for elderly and disabled residents of certain federally assisted multifamily housing; and (2) contracts for congregate services for certain federally assisted housing.Authorizes FY 2000 appropriations for grant renewal and new grants for service coordinators and congregate services for the elderly and disabled in public housing.Title III: Expanding Public Housing Opportunities for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Subtitle A: Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959, with respect to supportive services for the elderly, to establish a matching capital grant program. Requires project sponsors to provide between 25 and 50 percent of assistance, of which at least 50 percent shall be from non-Federal sources, including in-kind contributions. Provides for certain numbers of tenants who are elderly but  not very low-income persons.(Sec. 302) Makes for-profit limited partnerships eligible program participants.(Sec. 303) Permits owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 304) Expands acquisition authority.(Sec. 305) Authorizes low-income eligibility in supportive housing projects with high vacancy rates.(Sec. 306) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 307) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.(Sec. 308) Directs the Secretary to carry out a pilot program for up to five projects to determine the effectiveness and feasibility of providing section 202 assistance for housing projects that are both for supportive services for the elderly and for other types of housing, including market rate housing. Requires mixed use as part of program eligibility.(Sec. 309) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for capital repairs of elderly housing projects or their conversion to assisted living facilities. Sets forth project eligibility and selection criteria, including inclusion of up to three unused or underused commercial properties. Authorizes FY 2000 through 2004 appropriations.(Sec. 310) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public housing agencies for conversion of public housing for the elderly to assisted living facilities. Sets forth application and selection criteria. Authorizes FY 2000 through 2004 appropriations.(Sec. 311) Amends the Unites States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize a recipient of section 8 housing assistance to use such assistance in an assisted living facility. Limits use to rental costs.Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make multifamily projects that have converted elderly housing units to assisted living facilities eligible for section 8 project based assistance in the same manner as if they had not made such conversions. Sets forth rent calculation provisions.(Sec. 312) Directs the Secretary to make an annual inventory of HUD and federally- assisted housing designated for elderly and disabled families.(Sec. 313) Directs the Secretary, in the case of denial of section 202 assistance for failure to provide timely information, to notify and provide opportunity for the applicant to show third party fault. (Sunsets this provision 12 months after enactment of this Act.)Subtitle B: Housing for Persons with Disabilities - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to supportive housing for persons with disabilities to include among assistance forms a capital advance matching grants program. Require applicants to provide between 25 and 50 percent of assistance, of which at least 50 percent shall be from non-Federal sources, including in-kind contributions. Provides for certain numbers of tenants who are disabled but not very low-income persons.(Sec. 322) Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to make certain for-profit limited partnerships eligible recipients under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program.(Sec. 323) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the supportive housing for persons with disabilities program to permit owners to use mixed funding sources for amenities and other design features.(Sec. 324) Provides that tenant-based assistance may be provided  through a qualifying public housing agency or a private nonprofit organization. Limits tenant-based assistance to 25 percent of fiscal year program assistance.(Sec. 325) Provides that not more than 25 percent of fiscal year project rental assistance or capital advances may go to projects with 24 or more units.Directs the Secretary to conduct a study with respect to: (1) prior assistance provided to such projects; and (2) per-unit costs and benefits of specified project sizes assisted under the supportive housing for persons with disabilities  program and the section 202 program.(Sec. 326) Authorizes project reserves to be used to reduce the number of dwelling units by retrofitting unmarketable units.(Sec. 327) States that no provision of law shall be construed to prohibit commercial operations in a project location that benefits project residents.Subtitle C: Other Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to permit service coordinator services to be provided to low-income or elderly persons living in the vicinity of specified federally assisted housing.Includes telemarketing fraud  protection among the services provided to elderly residents of federally assisted housing and under the supportive housing program. Directs the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to establish related service coordinator guidelines.(Sec. 342) Establishes the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs in the 21st Century. Directs the Commission to conduct a study of senior citizens' future affordable housing, assisted living, and health facility needs, and public and private sector capacities to meet such needs. Obligates FY 2000 funding under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 for the Commission. Terminates the Commission as of June 30, 2002.Title IV: Renewal of Expiring Rental Assistance Contracts and Protection of Residents - Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997, with respect to expiring project-based section 8 contracts, to base renewal rates upon comparable market rates. Provides for exception renewal rates based on the lower of adjusted existing rents or budget-based rents for certain projects exempt from mortgage restructuring.Provides enhanced section 8 vouchers for residents of covered projects with expiring contracts. Authorizes FY 2000 through 2004 appropriations.Provides for continuation of expiring section 8 contract benefits to owners under specified conditions.Prohibits State or local limits on allowable project renewal distributions to owners.(Sec. 403) Amends the National Housing Act with respect to the rental and cooperative housing program to authorize: (1) interest reduction payments for project mortgage refinancing; and (2) project owners to retain excess income. Revises basic and market rent provisions.(Sec. 404) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to direct the Secretary to make matching grants to States and local governments for low-income housing preservation. States that grants may be used for acquisition, preservation incentives, operating costs, and capital expenditures for a housing project that: (1) is at risk of loss as affordable housing; (2) is primarily for elderly or disabled families; (3) contains one or more units occupied by large families; (4) is located in a rural area with an inadequate housing supply; or (5) is located in a smaller than market area where rental assistance vouchers would be difficult to use. Requires participating projects to: (1) have federally assisted mortgages; (2) be subject to section 8 project-based assistance; or (3) be eligible low-income housing purchased by a resident council. Gives grant priority to new State or local recipients and to nonprofit organization transferees. Authorizes FY 2000 through 2002 appropriations.(Sec. 405) Amends the National Housing Act to permit multifamily project rehabilitation loans to be made from recaptured interest rate reduction payments. Makes certain noninsured projects eligible for interest rate reduction capital grants.(Sec. 406) Amends the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 to permit technical assistance for preservation of low-income housing.(Sec. 407) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make section 8 renewals available for up to one year or any number of years, subject to appropriations.(Sec. 408) Amends the Housing and Community Developments Amendments of 1978 to make residents of any project receiving flexible subsidy program assistance eligible for enhanced voucher assistance.(Sec. 409) Amends the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 to extend grant and loan authority for management and disposition of multifamily properties and mortgages through FY 2000. Includes property construction among eligible activities.(Sec. 410) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible nonprofit entities to purchase and preserve affordable housing for low-income or very low-income families, including elderly persons. Authorizes FY 2000 through 2002 appropriations.Title V: Mortgage Insurance for Health Care Facilities and Home Equity Conversion Mortgages - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize mortgage insurance for debt refinancing of existing health care facilities. Permits hospital, home, or facility refinancing to prepay a loan that is within five years of maturity. Permits use of refinancing proceeds for related maintenance and equipment.(Sec. 502) Includes within the definition of ""assisted living facility"" certain unlicenced facilities. Defines ""health care facility.""(Sec. 503) Revises hospital mortgage insurance provisions to: (1) eliminate from the definition of ""hospital"" the requirement that not more than 50 percent of patient days be for specified non-acute conditions; (2) include within the definition of ""mortgage"" parity first mortgages or deeds of trust; (3) permit, under specified circumstances, an independent need and licensing certification study; and (4) provide for expedited mortgage insurance of public health care facilities.(Sec. 504) Authorizes the Secretary to insure  refinancing of home equity conversion mortgages. Provides for: (1) specified transaction disclosures; (2) waiver of counseling under specified conditions; (3) fee limitations; (4) single premium reduction; and (5) an actuarial study to determine insurance premium adequacy.Directs the Secretary to conduct an actuarial study of a single national mortgage limit.",2025-04-07T13:46:38Z,
106-hr-67,106,hr,67,Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Extension Act of 1999,Housing and Community Development,1999-01-06,1999-01-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.,House,"Rep. Bereuter, Doug [R-NE-1]",NE,R,B000403,0,"Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Extension Act of 1999 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, with regard to the Indian Housing Loan Guarantee Fund, to extend the: (1) authorization of appropriations; and (2) annual guarantee limitations, but bases such limitations on fiscal year appropriations.",2025-08-20T14:20:49Z,