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HR 1668 113th Congress House Housing and Community Development Connecticut Disaster relief and insurance Homelessness and emergency shelter Housing and community development funding Low- and moderate-income housing Natural disasters New Jersey New York State Rhode Island

Safely Sheltering Disaster Victims Act of 2013

Introduced: April 23, 2013 Introduced by: Velázquez, Nydia M. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Apr 23, 2013
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Safely Sheltering Disaster Victims Act of 2013 - Transfers a specified amount made available for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Fund in the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 to the Public and Indian Housing Tenant-Based Rental Assistance HUD account for tenant-based rental assistance only, including related administrative expenses, to areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

Subjects such funds to specified requirements, including that:

  • they be made available for such assistance by 60 days after enactment of this Act;
  • the HUD Secretary waive the public housing agency (PHA) project-based limitation for use of such assistance (under the voucher program) for low-income families;
  • the amounts may be provided only to PHAs that agree to give a preference to making such assistance available to eligible families displaced by Hurricane Sandy;
  • such families are otherwise eligible for such assistance; and
  • an eligible family may continue to receive such assistance after the transferred amounts are no longer available, subject to family eligibility and the availability of amounts in appropriation Acts.

Retains the designation of such amounts as an emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).

What's happening now April 23, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Appropriations, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1