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S 912 116th Congress Senate Housing and Community Development Low- and moderate-income housing Public housing

A bill to require certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in housing choice vouchers, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 27, 2019 Introduced by: Ernst, Joni Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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Mar 27, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Mar 27, 2019
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires a public housing agency that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a given year to accept a housing choice voucher from a family that received the voucher from an agency in a different jurisdiction.

What's happening now March 27, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Bill text 1 version

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Grassley, Chuck
Iowa · May 2, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 912: A bill to require certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in housing choice vouchers, and for other purposes.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-912/
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