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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 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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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
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 April 11, 2005

Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Apr 27, 2005
 D
Waters, Maxine
California · Mar 15, 2005
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1309: One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-1309/
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"H.R. 1309: One Strike and You're Out! Act of 2005." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-1309/.
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