S 1713
118th Congress
Senate
Housing and Community Development
Low- and moderate-income housing
Public housing
Rural conditions and development
Rural Housing Accessibility Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 18, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
May 18, 2023
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Rural Housing Accessibility Act
This bill requires a public housing agency (PHA) 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. The PHA that accepts the voucher (1) must make assistance payments to the family under an annual contributions contract, and (2) may not bill the initial PHA for the assistance payments for more than 12 months.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1