HR 1309
109th Congress
House
Housing and Community Development
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Eviction
Federal aid to housing
Fines (Penalties)
Housing for the aged
Housing for the disabled
Housing subsidies
Landlord and tenant
Low-income housing
Public housing
Rental housing
Social Welfare
One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005
Introduced: March 15, 2005
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 11, 2005
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Mar 15, 2005
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Mar 15, 2005
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt a tenant in public housing or housing assisted under the section 8 rental assistance program from the eviction for criminal or drug-related criminal activity provisions if such activity was engaged in by a member of the tenant's household or any guest or other person under the tenant's control and the tenant: (1) is an elderly or disabled person; and (2) did not know and should not have known of the activity, or the tenant or member of household was the victim of the criminal activity.
Requires public housing agencies to report annually on the number of such evictions.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Committees of jurisdiction
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